Drinking Horn

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Object Name: 
Drinking Horn
Place Made: 
Western Europe
Accession Number: 
2004.1.13
Dimensions: 
Overall L: 27 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
275-325
Primary Description: 
Drinking Horn. Transparent light green, opaque yellow and white glass; blown, tooled, applied. The horn curves in the imitation of the horns of an ox. The rim is decorated with two horizontal bands of yellow and a horizontal band of yellow zig-zag decoration. The body is decorated with vertical white lines and zig zag trails.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Blok, W. Bastiaan, Source
2005-02-14
Color: 
light green
yellow
white
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
applied decoration
Material: 
glass

Publications (3)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2004 (2005) illustrated, p. 2; BIB# AI90240
Recent Important Acquisitions, 47 (2005) illustrated, p. 215, #2; BIB# AI66969
Recent Acquisitions (2005) illustrated, p. 12, far left; BIB# AI66556