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Object NameBell-Shaped Bottle with Arches

Made FromGlass

Date800-999

TechniqueBlown, relief-cut

SizeOverall H: 14.8 cm; Base Diam: 8.3 cm

Accession Number73.1.30

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

The Decorative Cutting of Glass

Place Made

Iran

Physical DescriptionBell-Shaped Bottle with Arches. Transparent light bluish green; few small bubbles. Blown; relief-cut. Bottle with body shaped like bell. Rim plain, with pronounced internal bevel; neck cylindrical, but narrower at bottom than at top; shoulder rounded; wall almost straight, splaying slightly toward bottom; base plain; no pontil mark (but see below). Relief-cut ornament on neck, shoulder, wall, and base. On neck: single continuous band of ornament, with one horizontal rib at top and at bottom; ornament consists of five intersecting diamond-shaped facets, each with notched vertical ridge at midpoint. On shoulder: one “step” at junctions with neck and with wall, and between them continuous frieze of seven curved facets. On wall: seven contiguous panels, each containing one large, elongated arch with similar but smaller arch inside it; at top of wall, at junction of each pair of panels, one large triangular facet with small triangular facet beneath it; at bottom of wall, below panels with arches, seven plain contiguous facets with junctions under vertical axes of arches. On base: seven rhomboid facets, one beneath each junction of pair of plain facets, and two concentric countersunk disks (D. 5.4 cm and 3.4 cm).
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