2006.42, Chair, Karl Emmanuel Martin (Kem) Weber (Designer), Airline Chair Company (maker) , 1934-35
1967.12.14, Perfume bottle, Syro-Roman, 1st-4th centuries C.E., glass
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This glass perfume bottle is Roman but originated in Damascus around the fifth century CE.
1967.12.15, Double Unguentarium, Roman, ca. 200 C.E., glass
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This vase, a double unguentarium, was very popular in the east Mediterranean, especially in the glass centers of Syro-Palestine. The delicate double form is crafted by folding a glass tube in half, bonding the two equal parts, and attaching a pair of angular handles from the lips.
1975.31, Pitcher, Roman Empire, 1st-4th century CE, blown glass
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Glass has been used as a form of artistic expression for approximately 3,500 years. First appearing in the form of small beads in Mesopotamia, glass was soon shaped around preformed cores of earth to make hollow vases.
1975.30, Bottle, Roman Empire, 1st-4th century CE, blown glass
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Glass has been used as a form of artistic expression for approximately 3,500 years. First appearing in the form of small beads in Mesopotamia, glass was soon shaped around preformed cores of earth to make hollow vases.
1992.B.56 Valentine Green after Charles Wilson Peale, General Washington
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
George Washington sat for Charles Wilson Peale on seven occasions over a period of 23 years. This print is based on Peale's first full length portrait of Washington executed in 1779 representing Washington at the Battle of Princeton and was commissioned by the Supreme Executive Committee of Pennsylvania. At the General's feet are the flags of the conquered armies.
1999.50, "Air King" radio (model 66), Harold Van Doren, Air-King Products Co., Inc. (maker)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Giving objects, even stationary ones, streamlined shapes was seen as a sign of progress and dynamism in the Depression years of the 1930s.
1991.114, Relief: from a throne or architectural monument (The Nile god Hapi ritually tying together Upper and Lower Egypt), Egyptian, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.E, Schist slate
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
From the 26th Dynasty (664-525 BCE), this schist fragment depicts the Nile god Hapi carved in sunken relief as a double image, each with a floral headdress, tying together the heraldic plants of Upper and Lower Egypt.
1999.115, Portrait Head of a man, Roman, 130-145 C.E.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This Roman head is of the finest quality of the imperial workshops in the late Hadrianic or early Antonine period. The emperor Hadrian had begun a fashion for portraying himself bearded like a Greek philosopher.
2015.31, Head of Herakles, c. 1st century C.E., marble
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This composite sculpture is as interesting for its later history in 18th-century French art as it is for its Roman origins.