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Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
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Miniature Flask

DepartmentIslamic Art

CultureIslamic

Date9th-10th century A.D.

MediumGlass

Dimensionsh. 1 in. (2.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection

Object number86.138.472

DescriptionMold-blown flask of colorless glass. Wide cylindrical body with straight shoulder and four-faceted conical neck; flattened rim. Flattened base with pontil mark. Tooled decoration on body of concentric chevrons and double vertical lines.ProvenanceBy purchase, the Stark family, Orange, Texas, between 1927 and 1929; by bequest, the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986Exhibition History"Mediterraneo," Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico, April 27-Nov. 7, 2004

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