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Fragment with Half-Palmette

Fragment with Half-Palmette

 
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Object Name: 
Fragment with Half-Palmette
Department
Ancient
Category
Islamic
Place Made: 
Islamic
Date: 
800-999
Color
Almost Colorless, Bluish Green Tint
Technique
Blown, Cut
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4.7 cm, W: 4.4 cm
Accession Number: 
73.1.24
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. Betty Gruene Speir
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Almost colorless, with bluish green tint and very small bubbles. Blown and cut. Fragment of vessel with convex profile. Wall has relief-cut decoration on outside; part of frieze with horizontal line, presumably continuous, forming upper or lower border. If line is upper border, fragment has broad split palmette, each half with three leaves, which is inverted, above similar, perhaps identical motif, which is upright.
Provenance
Speir, Betty Gruene, Source
1973
McKearin, George S., Former Collection

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Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass (2010) illustrated, p. 261, #447; BIB# 113723

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