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- Title
The Purple Agate Vase in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Authors
Lightfoot, Christopher; Pilosi, Lisa; Wypyski, Mark T.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City's acquisition of a purple agate vase in 1910 from dealer Ettore Jandolo, who obtained the piece from the 1892 sale of collector Giuseppe Pacini of Florence, Italy. The sale catalog describes the vase as a cinerary urn and states that is was found during excavations near Taranto in 1880. It notes that through the early 20th century, the vase was displayed among the Roman glass in the Department of Greek and Roman Art as was featured in a 1936 exhibition highlighting the museum's collection of glass as belonging to the Roman period. However, it says that the style and chemical composition of the museum's vase is similar to the 19th-century European glass rather than to ancient Roman glass.
- Subjects
ITALY; NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); ANCIENT vases; ACQUISITION of property; METROPOLITAN Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; ROMAN glassware; JANDOLO, Ettore
- Publication
Journal of Glass Studies, 2010, Vol 52, p240
- ISSN
0075-4250
- Publication type
Article