Mosaic Bowl

Mosaic Bowl

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Object Name: 
Mosaic Bowl
Department
Ancient
Category
Islamic
Place Made: 
possibly Egypt
Date: 
about 800-899
Color
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red
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white
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green
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yellow
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greenish blue
Technique
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mosaic
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 2.1 cm, Diam (max): 5.3 cm
Accession Number: 
76.1.9
Location: 
On Display
Description
Opaque red, white, green, and yellow cane; opaque greenish blue cane. Cane slices fused and slumped. Bowl: segmental. Rim plain, with slightly irregular rounded lip; wall (Th. about 0.3 cm) curves down and in, and merges with convex base. Vessel consists of slices of two canes, originally with square cross sections, arranged in checkerboard pattern: (1) at least 67 polychrome slices, with red dot surrounded by (from center to edge) white(?) circle, green square, yellow square, and square of alternating red and white dots; and (2) at least 75 greenish blue slices. Many slices became diamond-shaped during fusing and slumping process.
Provenance
Safani, Esteban, Source
1976-09-10
Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1995-06-03 through 1995-10-22
Recent Important Acquisitions, 19 (1977) illustrated, p. 170, #11;

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