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dish

Object NameOval dish
Made FromGlass
Date300-399
Place Madeprobably Egypt
SizeOverall H: 5.6 cm, W: 13 cm, L: 22.8 cm
Accession Number53.1.108
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Glass of the Caesars
Not On View
Physical DescriptionDish. Transparent light amber and amethyst streaked glass with many bubbles. Oval dish, somewhat distorted, with base ring; hollow rim, folded unevenly outward and downward, rounded by reheating; straight tapering side, thickened floor, deep amethyst streak spirals clockwise into base; applied base ring; slightly splayed, tooled, cracked off and incompletely rounded by reheating; no pontil mark.
Provenance
Source Mathias Komor - 1953
Former Collection Clara Sobernheim (German, 1888-1963) - 1933-1952
Former Collection Moritz Sebastian Sobernheim (German, 1872-1933)
Berlin, Germany, before 1933
Former Collection Sobernheim
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