Currently not on view
Sprinkler,
3rd–4th century CE
Roman Imperial to Late Antiquity, ca. 476–700 CE
y1984-9
Information
Title
Sprinkler
Dates
3rd–4th century CE
Medium
Transparent light greenish yellow glass
Dimensions
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.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Straka
Object Number
y1984-9
Place Made
Syria
Description
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
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Subject
Given to the Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Straka
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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., (New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1972).
, 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. - "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1984," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 44, no. 1 (1985): p. 24-52., p. 40
- Anastassios Antonaras, Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012), cat. no. 231 (illus.)
