Fragment of Jar with Half-Palmettes

Object Name: 
Fragment of Jar with Half-Palmettes

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Object Name: 
Fragment of Jar with Half-Palmettes
Accession Number: 
68.1.59-7
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3.4 cm, D (est): 4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
800-999
Primary Description: 
Fragment of Jar with Half-Palmettes. Colorless rock crystal, apparently with patch of very small, brown, needle-like inclusions. Relief-cut. Fragment of jar: cylindrical. Rim plain, beveled on inside; wall vertical; base plain, with narrow splayed foot ring and at least one concentric circular rib on underside. Wall decorated in relief with frieze of scrolling half-palmettes bordered at top and bottom by horizontal ribs.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1968
Category: 
Color: 
Technique: 
Material: 
Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume One (2010) illustrated, pp. 340-341, #591; BIB# 113723