Bird-Headed Pin (Cassowary)

  • Titles Bird-Headed Pin (Cassowary) (Descriptive)
  • Medium bone
  • Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Harold Simon, 1966.132
  • Work Type pin
  • Classification Furnishings and Equipment

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Tall unguentarium, or tear vase or bottle, in the form of a candlestick with a bulbous base and long neck with flared lip of blown glass with iridescent shades of green, gold and purple.
Small, roundish bottle, or jar, of blown bluish-green, slightly translucent and iridescent glass with two curved handles and a thin bail handle of a different green glass, with narrow neck, the body decorated with applied, thin glass bands above a thicker, band of darker blue-green glass applied in a zig-zag pattern.