Fragment with Bird

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Object Name: 
Fragment with Bird
Accession Number: 
68.1.59-83
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam (max): 2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
800-999
Primary Description: 
Colorless. Blown and relief-cut. Fragment from wall of vessel with convex profile and relief-cut ornament on exterior. Ornament consists of head and neck of bird shown in profile facing left. Head has small countersunk boss to represent eye and short hooked beak, below which neck has notched outline. Beak and top of neck are hatched.
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, pp. 255-256, #432; BIB# 113723