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Object Name:

Cone Beaker

Place Made:

England, probably Kent

Accession Number:

85.1.4

Dimensions:

Overall H: 17.6 cm; Rim Diam: 8.5 cm

Location:

On Display

Date:

600-699

Web Description:

This beaker was found at Faversham, Kent, in southeastern England, in 1862.

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Department:

Ancient

Provenance:

Hoare, Dr. William Parker, Former Collection

Cooke, P. T., Source

1985-07-23

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Description

Primary Description:

Transparent yellowish brown glass; trails of same color. Blown; applied. Cone beaker. Rim outsplayed, turned in and down; wall tapers, curving in at bottom; base narrow; pontil mark annular, appearing as intermittent scar. Decorated with yellowish trails; below rim, horizontal trail with overlapping zigzag trails, irregular, ends overlapping, one trail; on base, damage to end of bottom trail. .

Exhibitions (2)

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass

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Title Unknown (Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences)

Venue(s)

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sidney 1959 through 1981

Publications (7)

The Decanter: Ancient to Modern (2018) illustrated, p. 25 (fig. 2);

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants (2010) illustrated, pp. 108-109, #10; BIB# 115588

Early Medieval Glass Vessels found in Kent. A catalogue of glass vessels of European migrants to Kent, from approximately AD 450-700, in museums, archaeological trusts and societies, and private collections. (2006) illustrated, pp. 212-213; BIB# 96294

Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Two (2001) illustrated, pp. 151-153, pl. 668; BIB# 58895

Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 37, #26; BIB# 35679

Recent Important Acquisitions, 28 (1986) illustrated, p. 99, #5; BIB# AI17497

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1985 (1986) illustrated, pp. 4, 14; BIB# AI96384