Fragment with Palmette

Object Name: 
Fragment with Palmette

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Object Name: 
Fragment with Palmette
Accession Number: 
64.1.66
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 5.6 cm, Diam (max): 6.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
800-999
Primary Description: 
Almost colorless, with yellowish tinge. Blown; relief-cut. Fragment from wall (TTh. 0.25 cm) of cylindrical bottle decorated in relief (Th. 0.1 cm). Decoration consists of part of palmette on vertical stem flanked on left side by scrolling stem, which terminates in half-palmette, above volute containing full or possibly half-palmette. Beyond this, at left edge of fragment, small part of curvilinear element. Palmette(s) and halfpalmette are hatched. Stems are plain.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
el Chaer, Mohamed abd El Rahim, Source
1964
Category: 
Islamic
Color: 
Almost colorless with yellowish tint
Technique: 
Blown and relief-cut

Publications (1)

Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume One (2010) illustrated, pp. 219-220, #367; BIB# 113723