1925.30.79: Amphoriskos
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1925.30.79
- Title
- Amphoriskos
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 4th-3rd century BCE
- Period
- Classical period, Late, to Early Hellenistic
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292127
Location
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3400, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Greece in Black and Orange
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Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Opaque blue glass with yellow decoration
- Technique
- Core-formed glass
- Dimensions
- 9.5 × 4 cm (3 3/4 × 1 9/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Joseph Clark Hoppin, Boston, MA (by 1925), bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1925.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
- Accession Year
- 1925
- Object Number
- 1925.30.79
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Core-formed vessel of dark blue glass with trailed decoration in yellow and a color now largely missing (white?); turquoise trail around rim and small foot. Body of vessel fragmentary with lighter-colored plaster fills; colors darkened; rim chipped. No traces of handles survive.
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/2023 - 01/01/2050
Verification Level
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