Diaphragm

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Object Name: 
Diaphragm
Accession Number: 
59.1.284
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 1.2 cm, Diam: 4.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
perhaps 700-1099
Primary Description: 
Diaphragm. Almost colorless, with yellowish tinge; transparent deep blue. Blown; applied; grozed. Diaphragm between bottom of neck and top of wall. Neck apparently tapers, and top of wall expands; diaphragm, made by folding, is tubular and has internal diameter of 2.6 cm. Three intersecting blue trails extend across top of opening between inner edges of diaphragm. Almost all of lower neck and upper wall removed by careful grozing, thereby creating disk with central perforation and trailed ornament.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1959-07-27
Category: 
Islamic
Color: 
colorless
yellow
deep blue
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
Grozed
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (3)

Glass from the Ancient World
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1957-06-04 through 1957-09-15
Verres Antiques de la Collection R.W. Smith
Venue(s)
Musee de Mariemont 1954 through 1954
 
Antikes Glas aus der Sammlung Ray Winfield Smith: Kurpfalzischen Museum Heidelberg
Venue(s)
Kurpfalzischen Museum 1952-11 through 1953

Publications (5)

Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume Two (2014) illustrated, p. 192-193, #938; BIB# 113723
Le Monde Byzantin dans L'Histoire de la Verrerie (V-XVI siecle) (1970) illustrated, p. 6, fig. 1; BIB# 19074
Glass from the Ancient World: The Ray Winfield Smith Collection (1957) illustrated, p. 219, #440; BIB# 27315
Catalogue des Verres Antiques de la Collection Ray Winfield Smith (1954) p. 38, #212; BIB# 28196
Antikes Glas aus der Sammlung Ray Winfield Smith (Heidelberg) (1952) p. 16, #87; BIB# 31788