Lump of Raw Glass

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Object Name: 
Lump of Raw Glass
Place Made: 
Japan
Accession Number: 
62.6.12
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 1.5 cm, W: 1.2 cm, D: 0.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 250 BCE-250 CE
Credit Line: 
Gift of Dorothy Blair
Primary Description: 
Colorless soda-lime glass, with slight tray-green tone "due to vitrification near the surface" (Brill).

More Info

Department: 
Science and Technology; Ancient
Provenance: 
Nagase, Kaoru, Former Collection
Oku-Kokokan, Former Collection
Blair, Dorothy, Source
1962-04-23
Color: 
colorless

Publications (1)

A History of Glass in Japan (1973) sup. note 8, p. 421; BIB# 27425