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Object Name: 
Fragment
Accession Number: 
68.1.58-351
Dimensions: 
Overall Dim (max): 2.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
800-999
Primary Description: 
Fragment. Transparent very pale greenish blue; decorated in yellow and orange yellow. Blown; stained. Fragment from wall (Th. 0.1 cm) with slightly convex profile. Decorated on outside: two roughly parallel yellow lines appear to be borders at bottom and top of two registers. Upper register has parts of two yellow elements resting on border: on left, short stem with very short branch ending in bud; on right, triangle; leaf or flower at top of stem and interior of triangle are orange yellow; triangle also has yellow dot at center. Lower register has yellow triangle filled with orange yellow and with yellow dot at center, and other motifs (also triangles?) adjoining it on left and right sides.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1968
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