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Cup with Pinched Decoration
| Collection number | ガ021-0251 |
|---|---|
| Provenance | Iran |
| Period | Early Sasanian period |
| Date | ca. A.D. 250-350 |
| Material | Glass |
| Dimension | D. 9.6 cm |
| Comment | A free-blown glass bowl in pale green transparent glass. The mouth rim has been finished by grinding. The disk-shaped foot has been twisted out from the base, and the pontil scar has been removed. The glass contains many bubbles. Its sides are rather thin for a bowl from the Sasanian Dynasty, the top of the body slopes slightly inward, and the shape of the hemispherical bowl is short and stout. There are 68 protrusions from the middle to the lower half of the body. The bowl is intact despite conspicuous weathering mainly on the bottom half of the body. There are two other known examples of similar artifacts from Iran, but neither of them were found through archeological excavations. In July of 1959, two Japanese archeologists acquired this object in Gilan, northern Iran, with another example of Sasanian glass similar to the haku ruri no wan (white glass bowl) in the Shosoin. |
| Classification | glass vessel |
| Keyword | Green,Clear Soft,Beautiful,Tiny Western Asia,Iran Glass Vessel,Bowl,Vessel,Based/Legged vessel,Based Pattern,Dot |