Beaker

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Object Name: 
Beaker
Place Made: 
Persia
Accession Number: 
79.1.91
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 7.4 cm; Rim Diam: 5.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1000-1199
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Colorless or almost colorless glass; blown, applied. Beaker: roughly cylindrical. Rim everted, with rounded lip; wallstraight, tapering slightly; base almost flat, with trail wound once around edge and faint pontil mark. Applied decoration on wall consists of narrow register bordered at top by trail, 2.1-2.3 cm below lip, wound one and two-third times around circumference; and at bottom by trail, 4.6-5.1 cm below lip, wound one and three-quarter times around circumference. Register contains, at top, continuous zigzag trail; below this, six groups of small blobs; each consists of cluster of six blobs (three above two, above one), which in one case extends onto lower border.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979-03-25
Eumorfopoulous, George (British, 1863-1939), Former Collection
1940-06-05
Churchill, Former Collection
1940-06-05
Category: 
Islamic
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Crusades Exhibition
Venue(s)
University Art Museum, Binghamton 1980-10 through 1980-11