fragment

Object NameFragment

Made FromGlass, Stone, Enamel, Gilding

Date1275-1399

Place MadeNear East; probably Syria

TechniqueBlown, enameled, gilded

SizeOverall H: 7.8 cm, W: 6.3 cm

Accession Number73.1.37-1

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Betty Gruene Speir

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Not On View

Physical DescriptionFragment. Colorless glass, with yellowish-brown tinge; bubbly, blowing spirals, stone; one patch of cracking iridescence; probably blown, enameled, gilded. Fragment preserves vessel wall of a bowl or mosque lamp; register of red and blue enamel lines around greatest diameter with a red enamel "fleur-de-lis" pattern on tapering underside of body, sections of this filled with red, white and blue enamel "relief" and gilt.
Provenance

Source Betty Gruene Speir - 1973

Former Collection George S. McKearin (b. 1874)