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Object Name: 
Fragment
Place Made: 
Near East
Accession Number: 
59.1.468
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6 cm; Rim Diam: 2.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
8th-10th century
Primary Description: 
Almost colorless, with green tinge. Blown (perhaps in mold); facet- and linear-cut. Fragment of rim and upper neck or body of vessel. Rim everted, with rounded lip and somewhat irregular mouth; neck or body has vertical side and square cross section. Each side has panel defined at top and bottom by single horizontal cut, 1.9 cm and 5.4 cm below rim; edges of each panel have two subtriangular or kite-shaped facets, one above the other, with longer sides meeting or almost meeting at midpoint.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1959-07-27
Category: 
Islamic
Color: 
Translucent colorless
Technique: 
free blown and cut and engraved

Publications (1)

Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume One (2010) illustrated, p. 145, #242; BIB# 113723