Bottle

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Object Name: 
Bottle
Place Made: 
Persia
Accession Number: 
64.1.21
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 28.1 cm, Diam (max): 13.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1000-1200
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Alice B. Tully and Mrs. John Dimick
Primary Description: 
Applied decoration, decorated with an elaborate network of pincered and trailed handles surmounted with free-standing figures representing either rabbits or possibly abstractly rendered horned beasts; heavily iridescent.

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Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Former Collection
Tully, Alice B. (d. 1993), Source
1964
Dimick, Mrs. John (d. 1981), Source
1964
Category: 
Islamic
Technique: 
applied decoration

Publications (7)

Glass terminology: a German-English Glossary (1967) illustrated, pl. III; BIB# 59459
Glass Terminology: a German-English Glossary (1967) illustrated, pl. III; BIB# 141372
Glass terminology: a German-English Glossary / compiled and published by Benedict Kolthoff (1966) illustrated, pl. III; BIB# 131404
Recent Important Acquisitions, 7 (1965) illustrated, p. 124, #17; BIB# AI97743
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1965) (1965) illustrated, p. 34, #34; BIB# 27582
History Revealed in Ancient Glass (1964-09) illustrated, p. 368; BIB# AI46886
Elaborately Designed Islamic Bottle Adds to Important Museum Collection (1964-05-21) illustrated