H x W x D: 8.5 x 4.2 x 2.2 cm (3 3/8 x 1 5/8 x 7/8 in)
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Italy?
Date:
ca. 100-200 CE
Period:
Roman period
Description:
Bottle, with flattened sides. Blown.
Transluent, olive-brown matrix with decoration in greenish-blue and white.
Provenance:
To 1909
Giovanni Dattari (circa 1858-1923), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]
From 1909 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Giovanni Dattari in 1909 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pgs. 1 and 3, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
