Fragment with Vegetal Motif

Object Name: 
Fragment with Vegetal Motif

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Object Name: 
Fragment with Vegetal Motif
Accession Number: 
68.1.59-56
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 2.9 cm, Diam (max): 3.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
800-999
Primary Description: 
Colorless or almost colorless, with few minute bubbles. Blown and relief-cut. Fragment of vessel. Wall has somewhat convex profile, with relief-cut decoration on outside. Parts of two motifs survive: (1) trefoil with notched outlines containing circular boss with, at center, countersunk dot; at base of trefoil, traces of stem, probably with outlines on both sides; (2) to left of trefoil, palmette or half-palmette with tip facing upward.
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. 263-264, #455; BIB# 113723