Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Accession Number: 
79.1.40
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.6 cm, Diam: 13.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
199-1 BCE
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Transparent amber glass with very few bubbles; cast, cut and polished. Hemispherical shape; rim outsplayed. Wheel-cut decoration: on exterior, two pair of horizontal grooves below rim; wall has four groups of five or six vertical flutes alternating with four petal-like motifs with grooved outlines, each containing two vertical flutes; at bottom, three concentric curls enclosing rosette with six petals. Numerous short strain cracks.
Department: 
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
Color: 
Material: 
Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23