Rim and Neck of Bottle

Object Name: 
Rim and Neck of Bottle

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Object Name: 
Rim and Neck of Bottle
Accession Number: 
81.1.702
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.1 cm; Rim Diam: 6.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
800-999
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. Ray Winfield Smith
Primary Description: 
Almost colorless, with greenish tinge; some bubbles and stones. Blown; facet-cut. Fragment of bottle. Rim in form of flange with rounded lip, slightly distorted; neck shaped like truncated cone, wider at bottom than at top. Neck is decorated with two continuous horizontal bands of facets. Upper band consists of five rectangular facets, and lower band has three pairs of rhomboids; in each pair, outer vertical sides are at higher level than inner vertical sides. Beneath upper band are three small semicircular facets, and two similar facets survive beneath lower band.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Smith, Mrs. Ray Winfield, Source
1981-12-07
Category: 
Islamic

Publications (1)

Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume One (2010) illustrated, pp. 55-56, #76; BIB# 113723