Possibly Fragment with Bird

Object Name: 
Possibly Fragment with Bird

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Object Name: 
Possibly Fragment with Bird
Accession Number: 
68.1.59-79
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam (max): 3.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
800-999
Primary Description: 
Possibly Fragment with Bird. Colorless, with very few minute bubbles. Blown and relief-cut. Fragment of vessel. Wall straight and decorated in relief with neck of bird (?) shown in profile facing left. Neck has notched outlines and transverse hatching at top; neck is wider at bottom than at top, and begins to expand at front in order to merge with breast. Small raised area behind neck may be edge of wing.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1968
Category: 
Color: 
Technique: 
Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume One (2010) illustrated, p. 257, #435; BIB# 113723