Hydriske

mid–4th/early 3rd century BCE

Eastern Mediterranean or Italian

Status: On View, Gallery 152
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
Title: Hydriske
Place: Eastern Mediterranean Region (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 450 BCE–350 BCE
Medium: Glass, core-formed technique
Dimensions: 6.7 × 4.6 × 4.6 cm (2 5/8 × 1 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Theodore W. and Frances S. Robinson
Reference Number: 1942.628
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Wanda Odell, “Ancient Glass: The Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Robinson Collection, Gallery 5A, The Art Institute of Chicago,” 1940, unpublished catalogue in curatorial object file, Art Institute of Chicago.
Karen Alexander, “The New Galleries of Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Minerva vol. 5, no. 3 (May/June, 1994), p. 38, fig. 16.

Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012 - present.

Theodore W. and Frances S. Robinson, Chicago, by 1931; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.

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