Fragment of Cup

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Object Name: 
Fragment of Cup
Accession Number: 
68.1.59-15
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4.5 cm, Rim Diam (estimate): 5.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 900-1099
Primary Description: 
Transparent light bluish green glass; blown, linear-cut. Rim plain, with rounded lip; wall (Th. 0.1-0.3 cm) vertical, curving in at bottom; base perhaps concave. Decorated with horizontal band (H. 3.1 cm) bordered at top and bottom by horizontal groove. Band contains two rows of contiguous arcs; one row descends from upper border and other row projects upward from lower border. In each space between upper and lower rows, group of three transverse cuts.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1968
Category: 
Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume One (2010) illustrated, p. 105, #164; BIB# 113723