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Primary Description:
Shallow Bowl (Phiale). Greenish glass, bubbly with frosted surface and patches of thin iridescent film; cast or sagged, cut, polished. Rounded rim flares out gently from almost straight-sided form with shallow convex bottom, the carination between side and bottom is highlighted with two lathe-cut grooves; the bottom of the vessel retains an omphalos from which radiate 32 flutes with rounded tops; each flute is relief-cut and concave in cross section.
Exhibitions (3)

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.

A Tribute to Persia
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1972 through 1972
Publications (42)
Development history of ancient Chinese glass technology (2021)
illustrated, p. 148;
Ancient and Islamic Glass: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2019)
illustrated, pp. 36-37;
Zhongguo gu dai bo li qi min = Chinese ancient glass (2018)
illustrated, p. 56 (2-16);
Cast: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity's Most Transformational Process (2017)
illustrated, p. 237 (right);
BIB# 149978
Zhongguo gu dai bo li ji shu fa zhan shi / 中国古代玻璃技术发展史 / 干福熹等著 (2016)
illustrated, p. 075;
Contemporary Glass Vessels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2015)
illustrated, p. 15 (fig. 10);
BIB# 149403
Verres d'usage et d'apparat, de la renaissance au xix siecle (2013)
illustrated, p. 19;
Historia del Vidrio: desarrollo formal, technologico y cientifico (2012)
illustrated, Fig. 5, p. 21;
BIB# 139172
Through Glass Objects and Poems (Atraves Do Vidro: Objetos E Poemas) (2006)
illustrated, p. 30;
BIB# 106729
A Glass Beaker with Cut Decoration, Found at Uppakra (2004)
illustrated, pp. 129-130, fig. 24;
BIB# 78015
Glass in Art, History, and Science at The Corning Museum of Glass (2003)
illustrated, p. 72, no. 25;
BIB# AI64198
Y'oroppa amerika no ant'iku garasu : shiru, kau, kataru, kansh'osura (2002)
illustrated, p. 120;
BIB# 74885
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 14;
BIB# 68214
New History of World Art - Western Asia (2000-02)
p. 267, ill. #236;
Rodiakē yalourgia I : ta en thermō diamorphōmena diaphanē aggeia polyteleias : oi klasikoí kai oi prṓimoi ellēnistikoí chrónoi / Paulos Triantaphyllidēs (2000)
illustrated, p. 179, table III.33 (no. 36);
BIB# 66846
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 13;
BIB# 63967
Enciclopedia Dell'Arte Antica, classica e orientale (1997)
illustrated, p. 1022, fig. 1297;
History of Glass Crafts (1990-07)
p. 45;
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990)
illustrated, pp. 28-29, pl. 6;
BIB# 33819
Masterpieces from the Corning Museum of Glass: 24 Ready-to-Mail Full-Color Postcards (1984)
illustrated, p. 1 (bottom right);
BIB# 34354
Pre-Persian and Persian Glass: Some Observations on Objects in the Corning Museum of Glass (1980)
illustrated, pp. 49-50, fig. 6-8;
BIB# 107941
Pre-Persian and Persian Glass: Some Observations on Objects in the Corning Museum of Glass (1980)
illustrated, pp. 49-50, fig. 6-8;
BIB# 23036
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History from The Corning Museum of Glass (1980)
pp. 28-29, pl. 6;
BIB# 20953
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979)
illustrated, p. 118, #248, pls. 14, 37;
BIB# 29547
An Achaemenid Glass Bowl in a Dated Context (1972)
pp. 15-16;
Persian Export Glass (1970)
illustrated, p. 14, fig. 13;
Achaemenid and Sasanian Cut Glass (1962)
pp. 7-8, fig. 1;