Possibly Fragment with Bird

Object Name: 
Possibly Fragment with Bird

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Object Name: 
Possibly Fragment with Bird
Accession Number: 
76.1.256
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
900-1099
Credit Line: 
Gift of Carl Berkowitz and Derek Content
Primary Description: 
Possibly Fragment with Bird. Almost colorless, with greenish yellow tinge. Blown; slant- and linear-cut. Fragment from wall of vessel (Th. 0.15 cm) with slant- and linear-cut decoration. Identity of ornament is uncertain, but it includes half-palmette with hatched interior and volute at lower extremity. Second element may be head of bird with slant-cut countersunk dot for eye and beak indicated by single linear cut. If identification of head is correct, half-palmette may be wing and other linear-cut elements may be outline of plump body and one upper leg.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Berkowitz, Carl, Source
1976-01-01
Content, Derek, Source
1976-01-01
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Former Collection
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