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Object Name: 
Fragment
Accession Number: 
73.1.25 C
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4.5 cm, W: 3.7 cm; Estimate Diam: 6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1200-1299
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. Betty Gruene Speir
Primary Description: 
Fragment. Fragment of beaker or bottle, with cylindrical body. Wall (Th. 0.3-0.2 cm) apparently vertical. Decorated with white trail wound spirally (parts of eight revolutions survive), which was dragged vertically to form rows of adjoining festoons.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient; Early Modern
Provenance: 
Speir, Betty Gruene, Source
1973
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Former Collection
Category: 
Islamic
Color: 
white
Technique: 
glassblowing
marvering
Trailed
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume Two (2014) illustrated, p. 205, #965; BIB# 113723

Objects in Set (6)

6 Fragments
Date:700-999
Accession Number:73.1.25
Fragment
Date:about 1200-1299
Accession Number:73.1.25 A
 
Fragment
Date:about 1200-1299
Accession Number:73.1.25 B
Fragment
Date:possibly 600-799
Accession Number:73.1.25 D
 
Fragment
Date:about 1200-1299
Accession Number:73.1.25 E
Fragment
Date:about 1200-1299
Accession Number:73.1.25 F