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There are 8 objects for which Decoration contains → glass
2020.8.1 Simple profile cartoon drawing of Paolo Orsi, slightly balding, bespectacled, with moustache & pointed beard; wearing a suit & tie. Signed "W.R. Lawson / Siracusa.1929. / 'Deus sit vobiscum'". Framed behind glass, in a simple black frame, with "P. Orsi / Syracuse April 1929" in pencil on the wooden back. Gummed label on back identifying framer: "From J.P. Ballard, Reading Fine Art Gallery, 21, Cross Street, Reading. / Printseller, Mount Cutter, Gilder and Picture Frame Manufacturer. / Dept for Windsor & Newton's Specialties./ For Repeat Orders please quote No. 4492" (4492 written in pencil).
91.11.2 Shape similar to 91.11.1. Top broken off. Slightly concave beneath. Greenish transparent glass, some internal incrustation. Some solidified grey matter inside.
91.11.3 Shape similar to 91.11.1, but bottom flare more cushion-shaped. Mouth slightly flared out, narrow flat rim, off centre. Lengthwise striations in glass, some becoming riven. Iridescent transparent glass, some blackening near top of neck. Slight incrustation.
91.11.4 Top broken, mouth partly preserved. Flares v. gradually from 4 cm below mouth, bottom curved like alabastron. Mouth flared. Transparent glass, bluish iridescence. Slight encrustation. Some striations in glass.
91.11.5 Brown glass, green/purple lustre on bottom surface. See card for drawing.
91.11.6A-B (a) fragment of base of bottle, and part of neck, shape resembling 91.11.2. Opaque opalescent lustre. H. (pres.) 4 cm (b) fragment of neck, possibly from same bottle (though glass appears thinner). Max L. 2.7 cm
L.2011.1.11 Glass fragment with a raised ridge across the middle and remains of a pearl-white glaze
L.2011.1.3 Fragment of medium blue glass embedded with a white-grey sediment
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