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beaker

Object NameBeaker

Made FromGlass

Date1000-1199

Place MadePersia

TechniqueBlown, applied

SizeOverall H: 7.4 cm; Rim Diam: 5.8 cm

Accession Number79.1.91

Credit LineGift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Crusades Exhibition

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless or almost colorless glass; blown, applied. Beaker: roughly cylindrical. Rim everted, with rounded lip; wallstraight, tapering slightly; base almost flat, with trail wound once around edge and faint pontil mark. Applied decoration on wall consists of narrow register bordered at top by trail, 2.1-2.3 cm below lip, wound one and two-third times around circumference; and at bottom by trail, 4.6-5.1 cm below lip, wound one and three-quarter times around circumference. Register contains, at top, continuous zigzag trail; below this, six groups of small blobs; each consists of cluster of six blobs (three above two, above one), which in one case extends onto lower border.
Provenance

Source Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation - 1979-03-25

Former Collection Churchill - 1940-06-05
Purchased at Sotheby's London 1940-06-05, lot 92

Former Collection George Eumorfopoulous (British, 1863-1939) - 1940-06-05
Sold at Sotheby's London 1940-06-05, lot 92