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Sprinkler
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Transparent light greenish yellow glass
3rd–4th century A.D.
h. 8.1 cm., diam. rim 4.3 cm., max. diam. 5.2 cm. (3 3/16 x 1 11/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Straka
Syria
In-folded, tubular rim; flaring mouth; short cylindrical neck, strongly constricted at its base; spherical body; flat base. On the body are three mold-blown rows of herringbone pattern. Blown into a bipartite mold. At the center of the bottom is an annular pontil mark, 1.6 cm. wide
Given to the Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Straka
<p><i>Egyptian, Coptic, Neolithic, Italic, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, Norse-Viking, Western Asiatic, Islamic antiquities: the property of various owners, including the Hagop Kevorkian Fund ... [et al.]: public auction, December 1 [1972] New York Galleries of Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc.</i>, (New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1972).</p>, No. 162a, from Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Solid for $80. Description fits 84-9 and Mr. Straka bought no. 162; 84-9 seems to have been on the market, for it has the remains of the fine purple string used for the tiny labels on which dealers (but not SPB) made their notations.
2267 1972"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1984," <i>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </i>44, no. 1 (1985): p. 24-52., p. 45
3134 1985Anastassios Antonaras,<i> Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum </i>(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012), cat. no. 93 (illus.)
1296 2012
