bowl
Object NameCup with Applied Decoration
Made FromGlass
Dateabout 900-1199
Place Madeprobably Iran
TechniqueBlown (two gathers), applied
SizeOverall H: 9 cm, Rim Diam: 11.45 cm, Foot Diam: 6.80 cm, Weight: 95.80
Accession Number79.1.270
Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs
Not On View
Physical DescriptionCup with Applied Decoration. Almost colorless glass, but with yellowish green tinge; many small bubbles; blown (two gathers), applied. Bowl: deep, cylindrical. Rim plain, with rounded lip; wall descends vertically before curving sharply in and down to junction with base, which is hollow and shaped like shallow cone, and has rounded edge; pontil mark annular (D. 1.8 cm). Applied decoration consists of register filled with prunts and bordered at top by narrow trail wound spirally three times around circumference, 1.6-2.2 cm below lip, and at bottom by narrow trail wound once around circumference, 1.5 cm above edge of foot; register contains three horizontal rows of 13 small, rounded prunts arranged in quincunx.Provenance
Source
Jerome Strauss
(1893-1978) - 1979
