Vessel fragment / Glass
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 1970.03.0933
- Object Name
- Vessel fragment
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Glass vessels
- Materials
- Glass
- Length
- ;
- Width
- 5.4;
- Height
- 7.6;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;5.3g
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Fragment of bowl or beaker. Central segment of slightly flaring wall in free blown and cut transparent colorless glass. Below a raised ridge a stylized palmette with curving horizontal leafy tendrils hanging down into incomplete spiral design. Finely incised lines on curves and within leaf pattern. Thin, good quality glass.
- Cf. Carboni and Whitehouse #79; Benaki #335a-c; Lamm Pl. 61 #16 for similar design on a lamp
- Glass fragment adorned with patterns carved in relief. The chiseling technique used to relief-cut this glass resembles the way rock crystal (which was analogized by medieval Muslim thinkers to light and petrified water) is worked. Free-blown and cut colorless glass (Pearls of Wisdom, Gruber; Dimmig).
- Earliest Date
- 800
- Latest Date
- 999
- Verbatim Date
- 9th - 10th C AD
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan (exhibit)
- Exhibition Curator
- Gruber, Christiane
- Publication Title
- Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan
- Publication Author
- Gruber, Christiane; Dimmig, Ashley
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Class Title
- Working with Objects: Islamic Textiles, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, and Manuscripts (W2020)
- Class Instructor
- Gruber, Christiane
- Class Department
- HISTART
- Class Number
- 490.001
- Class Year
- 2020
- Class Semester
- Winter
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 1970.03.0933
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1970.03.0933/dsc_3629.jpg
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"Vessel fragment; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1970.03.0933/dsc_3629.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
