Fragment with Palmettes

Object Name: 
Fragment with Palmettes

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Object Name: 
Fragment with Palmettes
Accession Number: 
76.1.260
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
800-999
Credit Line: 
Gift of Carl Berkowitz and Derek Content
Primary Description: 
Colorless. Blown; relief-cut. Fragment from wall of beaker(?) with straight side (OTh. 0.2 cm) decorated in relief (Th. 0.1 cm). Decoration consists of two curved, roughly horizontal stems that merge at base of vertical palmette; stem on left grows out of top of second palmette; above and below these elements are other stems and tendrils. Palmettes have incised details; stems are notched.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Berkowitz, Carl, Source
1976-01-01
Content, Derek, Source
1976-01-01
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Former Collection
Category: 
Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume One (2010) illustrated, p. 201, #336; BIB# 113723