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Object NameFragment with Half-Palmette
Made FromGlass
Date800-999
Techniqueblown, cut
SizeOverall H: 4.7 cm, W: 4.4 cm
Accession Number73.1.24
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Betty Gruene Speir
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionAlmost colorless, with bluish green tint and very small bubbles. Blown and cut. Fragment of vessel with convex profile. Wall has relief-cut decoration on outside; part of frieze with horizontal line, presumably continuous, forming upper or lower border. If line is upper border, fragment has broad split palmette, each half with three leaves, which is inverted, above similar, perhaps identical motif, which is upright.
Provenance
Source Betty Gruene Speir - 1973
Former Collection George S. McKearin (b. 1874)

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