Possibly Fragment with Animal and Half-Palmette

Object Name: 
Possibly Fragment with Animal and Half-Palmette

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Object Name: 
Possibly Fragment with Animal and Half-Palmette
Accession Number: 
68.1.59-28
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam (max): 4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
800-999
Primary Description: 
Possibly Fragment with Animal and Half-Palmette. Colorless or almost colorless. Blown and relief-cut. Fragment of vessel. Wall is straight, but angle at which it descends is uncertain. Decorated in relief on outside: part of elaborate curvilinear design, which includes half-palmette and area with row of nine very short cuts; outlines are notched and half-palmette has incised details.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1968
Category: 
Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume One (2010) illustrated, p. 249, #416; BIB# 113723