- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Label
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This bowl belongs to a type of shallow glass vessel produced in Mesopotamia and Iran in the sixth and seventh centuries, the later part of the Sasanian period (ca. 224-651). The thick walls of this group of bowls suggest that they were made by blowing hot glass into open molds, followed by fire-polishing of the rims and cold-working to create the faceted exterior walls. This Sasanian tradition of cut glass was highly prized in the Sasanian Empire and among its eastern neighbors.
- Collection Area(s)
- Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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