Fragment with Half-Palmettes

Object Name: 
Fragment with Half-Palmettes

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Object Name: 
Fragment with Half-Palmettes
Accession Number: 
68.1.59-14
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam (max): 6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
800-999
Primary Description: 
Colorless, with very small bubbles. Blown and relief-cut. Fragment of vessel. Wall splays, then curves out and down. Outside decorated in relief: parts of two split palmettes, side by side. Each split palmette had two stems that curved up, out, over, and down, terminating in curling leaf and at least one (probably two) triangular or kidney-shaped leaves; between stems, narrow tear-shaped motif, which is rounded at top and pointed at bottom.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1968
Category: 
Color: 
Technique: 
Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume One (2010) illustrated, p. 260, #445; BIB# 113723