Glass skyphos (drinking cup)
Colorless with pale greenish tinge.
Slightly inverted rim, with top edge ground flat; convex curving side tapering downward; splayed base ring with rounded bottom edge; slightly undulating, flat bottom; two ring handles applied to sides of body, carved out from blanks surrounded by raised squared-off areas, with flat thumb-rests above rings and projecting wings above and below.
Body broken and repaired, with one large chip in rim and several holes in body, but both handles intact; pinprick and larger bubbles; dulling, pitting, patches of iridescence and creamy weathering.
Rotary grinding marks on interior, exterior, and bottom.
Slightly inverted rim, with top edge ground flat; convex curving side tapering downward; splayed base ring with rounded bottom edge; slightly undulating, flat bottom; two ring handles applied to sides of body, carved out from blanks surrounded by raised squared-off areas, with flat thumb-rests above rings and projecting wings above and below.
Body broken and repaired, with one large chip in rim and several holes in body, but both handles intact; pinprick and larger bubbles; dulling, pitting, patches of iridescence and creamy weathering.
Rotary grinding marks on interior, exterior, and bottom.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass skyphos (drinking cup)
- Period: Hellenistic
- Date: late 3rd–early 2nd century BCE
- Culture: Greek
- Medium: Glass; cast and cut
- Dimensions: H.: 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm); Diam. (rim): 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.94
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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