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Drinking Horn. Colorless glass; blown, handle applied, decoration stained with lustre. Drinking horn with plain rim, thickened rounded lip; upper wall straight, with slight taper; lower wall curves down and out, and continues to taper terminating in bulb, which is solid except for small, tear-shaped bubble at center; no pontil mark. Single handle with circular cross section dropped onto upper wall, drawn out, vertically down, and in, and reattached to wall just below mid-point, with excess glass drawn up along its side. Decorated on body and handle with transparent greenish yellow and transparent to translucent yellowish brown lustre. On body, three continuous horizontal bands of ornament (from top to bottom): (1) bordered immediately below rim by broad yellow band above narrow brown band, three large, upward-pointing motifs resembling urns containing foliage, with additional foliage on either side of foot, alternating with two smaller, downward-pointing motifs resembling suspended garlands, with two even smaller vegetal motifs above and below upper handle attachment, all in brown or brown and yellow; (2) bordered at top by yellow band between two narrow brown bands, three upward-pointing trumpet-shaped vegetal motifs alternating with three vertical lines accompanied by dots and other small elements, in brown or brown and yellow; (3) bordered at top by yellow band between two narrow brown bands, five long, tear-shaped motifs and other small elements, again in brown and yellow; bulb painted yellow; handle painted brown and yellow. Glass contains tiny spherical and elongated bubbles.
Exhibitions (4)

Glass of the Sultans
Venue(s)
Benaki Museum
Corning Museum of Glass
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Les Tresors Fatimides du Caire
Venue(s)
Institut du Monde Arabe 1998-04-27 through 1998-08-30
Kunsthistorisches Museum 1998-10 through 1999-02

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 (16)
New Light on Old Glass: Recent Research on Byzantine Mosaics and Glass (2013)
illustrated, p. 330, pl. 1;
BIB# 136397
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 50;
BIB# 68214
Tresors fatimides du Caire: exposition presentee a I'Institut du monde arabe du 28 avril au 30 aout 1998 (1998)
illustrated, p. 128, #59;
BIB# 60100
Schatze der Kalifen: Islamische Kunst zur Fatimidenzeit (1998)
illustrated, pp. 118, 119, cat.# 75;
BIB# 96403
The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from the Corning Museum, a self-guided tour for children ages 6-10 and their parents (1990)
illustrated, #30;
BIB# 34085
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990)
illustrated, pp. 76-77, pl. 30;
BIB# 33819
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History from The Corning Museum of Glass (1980)
pp. 76-77, pl. 30;
BIB# 20953
Germanic Glass Drinking Horns (1975)
illustrated, pp. 82-87, fig. 19, #59;