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Primary Description:
Transparent light purplish brown glass; probably cast, possibly blown, and cut; hemispherical; rim plain, with rounded and very slightly everted lip; wall curves down and in; foot is solid cylinder. Decorated on wall with two continuous horizontal rows of six cylindrical bosses with concave upper surfaces, made by cutting, grinding and polishing.
Exhibitions (4)

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

Splendeur des Sassanides
Venue(s)
Musees Royaux d' Art et d' Histoire 1993-02-11 through 1993-05-25

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

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 (31)
Ancient and Islamic Glass: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2019)
illustrated, p. 87;
Zhongguo gu dai bo li qi min = Chinese ancient glass (2018)
illustrated, p. 123 (fig. 4-36);
Yi shu bo li he zhuang shi bo li (Artistic Glass and Decorative Glass) (2009)
illustrated, p. 253, pl. 15 (fig. 12-19, right);
BIB# 166455
Flaunting Dominion in Ancient Iran (2007-02-16)
illustrated, p. 31;
Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (2005)
illustrated, pp. 45-46, #50;
BIB# 88262
The Decanter: An Illustrated History of Glass from 1650 (2004)
illustrated, p. 72, pl. 101;
BIB# 67221
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 45;
BIB# 68214
New History of World Art - Western Asia (2000-02)
p. 317, ill. #290;
The Corning Museum of Glass and the Finger Lakes Region (1993)
illustrated, p. 38, third row, right;
BIB# 35681
Splendeur des Sassanides: L'Empire Perse Entre Rome et la Chine (224-642) (1993)
p. 265, #114;
BIB# 44532
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990)
illustrated, pp. 66-67, pl. 25;
BIB# 33819
The History of Glass (1989 edition) (1989)
illustrated, p. 54;
BIB# 150278
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History from The Corning Museum of Glass (1980)
pp. 66-67, pl. 25;
BIB# 20953
Multimedia (1)

Sasanian Cup
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