Cameo-glass cup fragment
Translucent cobalt blue with overlay in opaque white.
Vertical rim with top edge ground flat; narrow sloping collar below rim on exterior; cylindrical body with slightly convex curving side.
On interior, two deep horizontal grooves below rim; on exterior, below plain collar in relief naked male figure in white, facing right, with proper left leg raised and proper right arm also raised with hand near mouth; above his head to right is a hanging leaf; behind him to left is a squared plinth on which stands a small herm of Silenus, naked, armless, and ithyphallic, in profile to right, flanked to either side by leafy sprays. The figure may be identified as a dancing satyr.
Rim fragment with chips and cracks, broken at sides and bottom; dulling, slight pitting, whitish weathering on exterior, and faint iridescence.
Rotary grinding marks on interior.
The fragment depicts a figure facing right and a small statue of Priapus on a pedestal.
Vertical rim with top edge ground flat; narrow sloping collar below rim on exterior; cylindrical body with slightly convex curving side.
On interior, two deep horizontal grooves below rim; on exterior, below plain collar in relief naked male figure in white, facing right, with proper left leg raised and proper right arm also raised with hand near mouth; above his head to right is a hanging leaf; behind him to left is a squared plinth on which stands a small herm of Silenus, naked, armless, and ithyphallic, in profile to right, flanked to either side by leafy sprays. The figure may be identified as a dancing satyr.
Rim fragment with chips and cracks, broken at sides and bottom; dulling, slight pitting, whitish weathering on exterior, and faint iridescence.
Rotary grinding marks on interior.
The fragment depicts a figure facing right and a small statue of Priapus on a pedestal.
Artwork Details
- Title: Cameo-glass cup fragment
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: end of 1st century BCE–beginning of 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast and cut
- Dimensions: Other: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.152
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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ca. 41–54 CE
ca. 27 BCE–14 CE
1st–2nd century CE
late 1st century BCE
3rd century CE
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