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Primary Description:
Colorless; blown and relief-cut; globular body, rim is slightly everted and inside is beveled. The neck is narrow and cylindrical. The base has a low, splayed foot ring, the underside is convex. The bottle has relief-cut decoration on the lower neck and wall. The mid-section has five continuous horizontal ribs. The lower part is cut in eight contiguous vertical facets. There is a stepped molding at the junction of the neck and the shoulder. The body is decorated with a broad frieze framed by a horizontal rib at the junction of the shoulder and the wall and another rib near the base. The frieze contains three pairs of ibexes facing one another across a vegetal motif consisting of two S-shaped scrolls terminating below in a palmette, and two S-shaped scrolls and a heart-shaped motif behind them. The ibexes have long, curving horns, short bodies and small tails. The hip joints of the rear legs are marked with a scroll. Many of the outlines are notched and the heads and feet of the ibexes, and some other motifs, are hatched.
Exhibitions (6)

Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World
Venue(s)
American Museum of Natural History 2009-11 through 2010-08
National Museum of Natural Science 2011-06-11 through 2011-09-12
National Museum of Australia 2012-03-31 through 2012-07-29
Palazzo delle Esposizioni 2012-10-27 through 2013-03-24
National Chaing Kai Shek Memorial Hall

Glass of the Sultans
Venue(s)
Benaki Museum
Corning Museum of Glass
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Liquid Refreshment: 2000 Years of Drinks and Drinking Glasses
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1993-04-24 through 1994-12-31

Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass
Venue(s)
Yokohama Museum of Art 1992-10-12 through 1992-12-13

Masterpieces of Glass from The Corning Museum of Glass
Venue(s)
National Gallery of Art 1990-12-02 through 1991-04-14

The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from The Corning Museum of Glass
Venue(s)
IBM Gallery 1989-12-12 through 1990-02-02
National Gallery of Art 1990-12-09 through 1991-04-14
Decorative and utilitarian works from the Corning Museum of Glass, surveying 35 centuries of glass-making technology and stylistic developments from ancient Egyptian, Roman, Islamic, and Asian cultures to contemporary American and European examples.
The works were selected by Corning Museum staff members Dwight P. Lanmon, director and curator of European glass; David B. Whitehouse, curator of ancient and Islamic glass; Jane Shadel Spillman, curator of American glass; and Susanne K. Frantz, curator of 20th-century glass.
Publications (17)
Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume One (2010)
illustrated, pp. 210-211, #354;
BIB# 113723
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 54;
BIB# 68214
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990)
illustrated, pp. 70-71, pl. 27;
BIB# 33819
The History of Glass (1989 edition) (1989)
illustrated, p.59;
BIB# 150278
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History from The Corning Museum of Glass (1980)
pp. 70-71, pl. 27;
BIB# 20953