Fragment of Bracelet with Overlay, Monochrome Patch and Cane Slices

Object Name: 
Fragment of Bracelet with Overlay, Monochrome Patch and Cane Slices

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Object Name: 
Fragment of Bracelet with Overlay, Monochrome Patch and Cane Slices
Accession Number: 
73.1.23
Dimensions: 
Overall W: 0.9 cm; Exterior Diam: about 8.5 cm; Interior Diam: about 7.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1500-1973
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. Betty Gruene Speir
Primary Description: 
Translucent yellowish brown and opaque green, with opaque orange patch, and black and opaque yellow cane slices. Formed on rod or conical tool; applied. Bracelet, with flat cross section. Brown band almost completely covered on outer surface with flattened green trail. Surviving part has one roughly rectangular orange patch overlain by two rows of oval cane slices, each of which has yellow core surrounded by thin black outline and with black dot or short line at center; patch and cane slices are flat. Inside of bracelet is brown and shiny.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Speir, Betty Gruene, Source
1973
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Former Collection
Category: 
Islamic
Jewelry
Color: 
amber
Technique: 
tooled, applied, marvered
tooling

Publications (1)

Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume Two (2014) illustrated, p. 249, #1052; BIB# 113723