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Object NameRing

Made FromGlass

Date1500-1599 or later

Techniquegathered, agitated, drawn, bundled, fused, cut, applied

SizeOverall Diam: 3 cm, Th: 0.7 cm

Accession Number95.1.34

Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Place Made

possibly Egypt; possibly Syria

Physical DescriptionTurquoise blue opaque glass, with red, yellow, black, and white patches; glass probably gathered around tool with conical end and agitated until it assumed form of ring; rods of different colors drawn, bundled, and fused, and resultant cane cut or broken into slices; slices applied to ring. Ring: semi-circular to D-shaped cross section. Decorated with five identical striped cane slices; each slice has black stripe flanked on either side by white, black, yellow, and red stripes. Inner surface of ring is dull and black.
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