Currently not on view
Sprinkler
y1946-314
Information
Object Number
y1946-314
Medium
Transparent light green glass; no impurities
Dates
4th century A.D.
Dimensions
h. 11 cm., diam. rim 6 cm., diam. base 3.5 cm., max. diam. 7.7 cm. (4 5/16 x 2 3/8 x 1 3/8 x 3 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Platt from the bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Place Made
Syria
Type
Subject
Materials
mold-blown glass
Description
In-folded, flaring rim; funnel mouth; short cylindrical neck, severely constricted at its base, creating a diaphragm; squat, ovoid body with mold-blown oblique ribbing; concave bottom. Thick coil wound around the exterior of rim.
Given to the Museum by Mrs. Platt from bequest of Dan Fellows Platt
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794814337
Anastassios Antonaras,<em> Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum </em>(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012), cat. no. 108 (illus.)
1296 2012
