Beaker

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Object Name: 
Beaker
Place Made: 
perhaps Iran
Accession Number: 
79.1.202
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10.1 cm; Rim Diam: 7.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
800-1099
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Almost colorless glass, but with pale green tinge; blown. Beaker shaped like truncated cone. Rim plain, with rounded lip; wall straight and tapering, and curving in at bottom; base plain and very slightly concave; pontil mark vestigial.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979-03-25
Category: 
Islamic
Color: 
colorless
green
Technique: 
blown
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume Two (2014) illustrated, p. 39-40, #650; BIB# 113723