Pendant with Head of Demon

Object Name: 
Pendant with Head of Demon

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Object Name: 
Pendant with Head of Demon
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
70.1.15
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
650-400 BCE
Primary Description: 
Opaque white glass, pitted, applied opaque yellow and translucent deep blue glass; core-formed with trailed and tooled decoration. Pendant bead in the shape of a demon, triangular in general form, tooled and flattened horizontal yellow beak trailing back up into wide arch eyebrows which frame bulging yellow eyes with large blue centers; small semi-circular yellow ears on back of head with trails of yellow running down to frame the outline of the bead, a suspension loop of white glass applied at the top of the head.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Komor, Mathias, Source
1968-06-18
Clercq, M. de, Former Collection
Les pendentifs en verre sur noyau des pays de la méditerranée antique (1982) illustrated, p. 82 (no. 70, fig. 23); BIB# 23059
Story of Glass Coloring Book (1981) illustrated, p. 5, top right; BIB# 67749
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, p. 109, #216; BIB# 29547