Dish
5th century-6th century (made)
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Glass dish with cut rim, green with yellowish tinge, all crackled and completely weathered.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Glass, with cut glass rim |
| Brief description | Glass dish, found in Iran (Persia), 400-599 |
| Physical description | Glass dish with cut rim, green with yellowish tinge, all crackled and completely weathered. |
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| Credit line | Wilfred Buckley Collection |
| Production | Analysis by the Natural History Museum indicates this to be glass. Inconsistencies are deep cracks, which do not resemble the crazing or crizzling of glass. Possibly fluor-spar, on the basis of its colour and appearence. The bowl was examined by Mr. Campbell Smith in Feb. 1950 |
| Other number | 6231 - Glass gallery number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.135-1936 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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