fragment
Object NameFragment with Hares
Made FromGlass
Date800-999
Techniqueblown, relief-cut
SizeOverall H: 3.2 cm, Diam (estimate): 9 cm
Accession Number76.1.202
Credit LineGift of Carl Berkowitz and Derek Content
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionAlmost colorless glass with pale yellowish fracture; blown, relief-cut. Fragment of bottle or bowl. Decorated with parts of two registers. Upper register has small part of unidentified motif, probably animal, with hatched foot or limb. Lower register has notched upper border and plain lower border, and contains frieze of animals shown in profile running toward viewer’s left. One, almost complete, animal consists of hare with pointed snout, eye represented by countersunk dot, large ear, body with notched outlines, foreleg thrust forward with leg embellished with hatching, and rounded haunch. In front of hare, tail and hind limb of another animal.Provenance
Source
Derek Content
- 1976-01-01
Source
Carl Sandler Berkowitz
- 1976-01-01
Former Collection
Ray Winfield Smith
(American, 1897-1982)
