Snake Thread Sprinkler

CultureRoman
Titles
  • Snake Thread Sprinkler
Date200–300 AD
PlaceCologne, Germany, Köln (national district)
MediumGlass
DimensionsOverall: 4 5/8 × 3 1/8 × 3 1/8 in. (11.7 × 7.9 × 7.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number70.92
Non exposé

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Department
Antiquities
Object Type
Provenance[Ray Winfield Smith (c. 1897–1982), Houston, by 1970]; purchased by MFAH, 1970.

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Sprinkler Flask
200–400 AD
Blown glass
2003.132
Cup
193–235 AD
Glass
31.103
Bottle
No date
Glass
70.116
Banded Flask with Coiled Spiral Thread
300–201 BC
iridescent glass
70.79
Oil Flask
99–200 AD
Glass
70.115
Upper Part of Neck of Vase
No date
Glass
52.50
Ribbed glass bowl
25–75 AD
Cast glass
2008.508
Flask with Applied Threadings
101–300 AD
Glass
70.84
Goblet
1–400 AD
Glass
31.113
Goblet
1–400 AD
Glass
31.114
Core-Formed Aryballos
525–400 BC
Core-formed glass with two trailed handles of contrasting blue glass
2003.135