Fragment of Bowl or Cup with Animal (?)

Fragment of Bowl or Cup with Animal (?)

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Object Name: 
Fragment of Bowl or Cup with Animal (?)
Department
Ancient
Category
Islamic
Place Made: 
Islamic
Date: 
800-999
Color
AAT
colorless
Technique
Dimensions: 
Overall H (surviving): 2.1 cm; Rim Diam (est): 6 cm
Accession Number: 
68.1.59-81
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Fragment of Bowl or Cup with Animal (?) Colorless. Relief-cut. Fragment. Rim plain, with flat top; wall curves slightly down and in. Decorated in relief on outside, probably with animal shown in profile facing left. If so, surviving parts are outlines of back of neck and of body, left haunch, and tail in form of half-palmette, which is above body and extends forward. Outlines are notched, haunch is contoured, and tail is hatched.
Provenance
Smith, Ray Winfield, Source
1968
Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass (2010) illustrated, p. 339, #588; BIB# 113723
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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