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bowl

Object NameBowl

Made FromGlass

Date1100-1399

TechniqueBlown, trailed, marvered, dragged

SizeOverall H: 3.7 cm; Rim Diam: 8.2 cm

Accession Number79.1.112

Credit LineGift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation

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Exhibitions

Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Medieval Trans-Saharan Exchange

Place Made

possibly Syria; possibly Egypt

Physical DescriptionBowl. Translucent reddish purple, with small bubbles and one stone; opaque white. Blown; trailed, dragged, and marvered. Rim plain, with rounded lip; wall curves down and in, then sharply in at bottom; very shallow, hollow stem between bottom of wall and base; base has tubular edge made by folding and concave underside with corresponding dome pushed through stem on interior; pontil mark circular (D. 1 cm). Decorated with single trail wound around parison about 21 times and now extending from point of attachment at center of base to rim; trail was dragged upward 17 times to produce irregular feathered effect with tool marks curving upward from right to left.
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