Beaker

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Object Name: 
Beaker
Place Made: 
Syria
Accession Number: 
54.1.42
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10.7 cm, Rim Diam: 6.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1200-1399
Credit Line: 
Gift of I. C. Elston, Jr.
Primary Description: 
Almost colorless glass, but perhaps with greenish tinge; blown; applied. Beaker: cylindrical. Rim slightly everted, with rounded lip made by folding in and down; wall tapers with convex profile for top 3 cm, below which it descends vertically; base has applied foot ring and conical kick; pontil mark irregular (L. 1.5 cm).

More Info

Department: 
Ancient; Early Modern
Provenance: 
Elston, I. C. Jr., Source
1954-09-07
Category: 
Islamic
Color: 
colorless
green
Technique: 
blown glass
applied decoration

Exhibitions (1)

Islam and the Medieval West
Venue(s)
University Art Museum, Binghamton 1975 through 1975

Publications (2)

Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume Two (2014) illustrated, p. 38-39, #647; BIB# 113723
Islam and the Medieval West (1975) illustrated, no. G18; BIB# 18974