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Object NameFragment with Animal
Made FromGlass
Date800-999
Place MadeNear East
Techniqueblown, relief-cut
SizeOverall Diam: 4.9 cm
Accession Number59.1.445
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Glass from the Ancient World
Not On View
Physical DescriptionAlmost colorless, with yellowish tint and very few small bubbles. Blown and relief-cut. Fragment of vessel. Lower wall (Th. up to 0.4 cm with decoration, 0.2-0.3 cm without decoration) curves down and in with, at bottom of fragment, horizontal rib defining bottom of frieze. Surviving part of frieze contains animal shown in profile, moving to left. Animal has notched outlines; hind leg, which extends backward, has tear-shaped haunch and roughly oval, hatched foot; tail, indicated by single notched line, curves up and forward.
Provenance
Source Ray Winfield Smith (American, 1897-1982) - 1959-07-27

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