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Translucent pale green over colorless. Blown, cased; relief-cut, drilled; handle applied. Ewer with pear-shaped body. Rim plain, outsplayed, with oval mouth and pointed pouring lip; neck narrow; foot hollow, splayed; ribbon handle attached to lower part of body and rim. Decorated in relief: one band on lip; two bands on neck, one curving up toward pouring lip; panel with birds and animals on body, defined at top by border with superficial incised crosses alternating with deeper printies, and at bottom by plain line that turns up at extremities and follows line of handle until it meets upper border; inside panel, pair of opposed, regardant horned quadrupeds with crossed forelegs, each with bird of prey perched on rump and pecking at back of neck; behind these, at each edge of panel, parrot-like bird on branch, its back to bird of prey and head turned back over shoulder, with scrolling palmette spray in beak; hind leg joints of animals and wing coverts of raptors terminate in half-palmettes; bodies of animals and raptors enlivened with printies; behind handle, green overlay cut in tall, tapering form; lower end of handle cut in relief with heart-shaped palmette above two volutes; at highest point of handle, remains of elaborate bifurcated thumb-rest.
Exhibitions (2)

Glass of the Sultans
Venue(s)
Benaki Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Arts of Islam
Venue(s)
Hayward Gallery 1976 through 1976
Publications (65)
Contemporary Glass Vessels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2015)
illustrated, p. 18 (fig. 20);
BIB# 149403
Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume One (2010)
illustrated, Cover; pp. 296-300, #522;
BIB# 113723
Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume One (2010)
illustrated, Cover; pp. 296-300, #522;
BIB# 113723
Yi shu bo li he zhuang shi bo li (Artistic Glass and Decorative Glass) (2009)
illustrated, p. 110, pl. 2 (fig. 5-12a);
BIB# 166455
New Glass Review, 28 (2007)
illustrated, p. 81;
Tesori del Vetro al Corning Museum of Glass (2005-12)
illustrated, pp. 16-31; p. 21, fig. 5;
BIB# AI67739
Akantas (2004)
illustrated, p. 13;
Early Islamic Cameo Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (2003)
illustrated, Cover; p. 149, fig. 1;
BIB# AI57285
Islamic Masterworks: 'Glass of the Sultans' at the Met (2001-11)
illustrated, fig. 22;
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 55;
BIB# 68214
Glass of the Sultans (2001)
illustrated, p. 105, top;
Glass in the Islamic World (2001)
illustrated, [p. 4, bottom];
Glass of the Sultans (American Craft Magazine) (2001)
pp. 64-65;
BIB# AI0181
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 16;
BIB# 63967
The Corning Ewer: A Masterpiece of Islamic Cameo glass (1993)
illustrated, pp. 48-51, figs. 1-5;
The Corning Museum of Glass and the Finger Lakes Region (1993)
illustrated, p. 4, #8; pp. 12-13, #20;
BIB# 35681
Things Not to Miss in the Corning Museum of Glass (1991)
illustrated, p. 114;
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990)
illustrated, pp. 72-73, pl. 28;
BIB# 33819
The New Thrust of Corporate Museums (1986-06)
illustrated, p. 42;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1985 (1986)
illustrated, cover;
Transparent Mystery (1985-12)
illustrated, p. 131f;
Early Treasures Crafted in Glass (1985-07-28)
illustrated
What the Museum Acquires and Why (Winter '85) (1985)
illustrated, cover;
Islamic Art in the United States: The Corning Museum of Glass (1985)
p. 70, ill. p. 67;
2,000 Years of Cameo Glass at The Corning Museum (1982-07)
illustrated, p. 57;
Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking (1982)
illustrated, pp. 34-35, 105, #19;
BIB# 30609
Multimedia (4)

The Corning Ewer
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