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Spheroid

Spheroid

 
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Object Name: 
Spheroid
Department
Ancient
Category
Islamic
Place Made: 
Islamic
Date: 
1100-1299
Color
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deep purple
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white
off white
Technique
hot-worked
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applied decoration
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marvering
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 1.7 cm, Diam: 1.6 cm
Accession Number: 
98.1.77
Credit Line: 
Gift of Carl Berkowitz and Derek Content
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Spheriod. Opaque deep purple, with opaque white and off-white trail. Hot-worked; applied, dragged, marvered. Spheroid: solid. Slightly irregular, with flat bottom; trace of pontil mark. Decorated with single trail dropped onto side just above bottom, wound about seven times around side and edge of top, and dragged upward eight times to produce overall pattern of vertical rows of festoons.
Inscription
230-14
mark
:
on end in white
Provenance
Smith, Ray Winfield, Former Collection
Berkowitz, Carl, Source
1976-01-01
Content, Derek, Source
1976-01-01

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