Image: Corning Ewer. possibly Western Asia; possibly Egypt. about 1000 AD. CMoG.85.1.1.
The Museum purchased the ewer in 1985 and decided that year to call it "The Corning Ewer". The Corning Ewer is an outstanding example of Islamic relief-cut cameo glass and was purchased from the Abas Foundation with funds from the Clara S. Peck Endowment Fund.
The name was perhaps chosen because the Corning Ewer has a close parallel to the Buckley Ewer in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Should one wish to read more about the Corning Ewer, there are 3 pages about it in the 2001 exhibition catalog "The Glass of the Sultans".
