Beaker

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Object Name: 
Beaker
Place Made: 
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).
Provenance: 
Elston, I. C. Jr., Source
1954-09-07
Category: 
Islam and the Medieval West
Venue(s)
University Art Museum, Binghamton 1975 through 1975
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