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Object Name: 
Fragment
Accession Number: 
76.1.290
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 901-999
Credit Line: 
Gift of Carl Berkowitz and Derek Content
Primary Description: 
Colorless, with few very small bubbles. Blown; relief-cut. Fragment from wall (OTh. 0.25 cm) of vessel decorated in relief (Th. 0.1 cm). Decoration consists of small part of complex design of indeterminate character, composed of curving lines (W. 0.25–0.3 cm) with median grooves punctuated by pairs of perpendicular cuts; one line expands into hatched triangular area and branches.

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Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Former Collection
Berkowitz, Carl, Source
1976-01-01
Content, Derek, Source
1976-01-01
Category: 
Islamic

Publications (3)

Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume One (2010) illustrated, p. 271, #473; BIB# 113723
Glass from the Ancient World: The Ray Winfield Smith Collection (1957) p. 281, no. 590 (group); BIB# 27315
Catalogue des Verres Antiques de la Collection Ray Winfield Smith (1954) p. 49, #298; BIB# 28196