skip to main content
LOTERRE

LOTERRE

Search from vocabulary

Content language

| español français
Search help

Concept information

Containers > Drinking vessels > Hedwig glasses

Preferred term

Hedwig glasses  

Definition(s)

  • Glass beaker-shaped vessels, boldly cut in cameo relief, 10th-12th cs.?; so-called because 2 of the 12 known surviving examples supposedly belonged to S. Hedwig; formerly thought to be Egyptian or Persian; similar fragments found in Russia

Broader concept(s)

Notation

  • 111718

In other languages

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-C19BRNF2-2

Download this concept: