Glass Situla with Silver Handles in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010

Title: Glass situla (bucket) with silver handles

Medium; Technique: Glass with silver handles; cast

Culture: Greek

Period: Late Classical or Early Hellenistic

Date: late 4th–early 3rd century B.C.

Dimensions: Overall: 10 1/2 x 8 x 6 3/4in. (26.7 x 20.3 x 17.1cm)

Classification: Glass

Credit Line: Purchase, The Bernard and Audrey Aronson Charitable Trust Gift, in memory of her beloved husband, Bernard Aronson, 2000

Accession Number: 2000.277


Description:

The situla was used for cooling and serving wine at banquets. This one is made of almost colorless glass. It was cast and carved, and then bands of gilded and painted decoration were applied around the outside. The vessel is highly unusual in both shape and decoration, and few parallels in glass are known. It may, however, be compared with metal examples such as the bronze situla of the Prusias Find, which is displayed in the gallery for Greek art of the fourth century B.C.

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