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Part of the bottom of a glass vase
(جزء من قاع إناء من الزجاج)

Title	Part of the bottom of a glass vase
Title Original	جزء من قاع إناء من الزجاج
Publication Date:	5th century AH / 11th century AD
Publication Place	- Museum of Islamic Art
Subject	Glass decorated with metallic luster.
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	القطر: 11.5 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	14519
Record ID	object;ISL;eg;Mus01;23;ar
Library Location	Museum of Islamic Art
Date	5th century AH / 11th century AD
Notes	The piece is part of the bottom of a clear glass vessel decorated with brown metallic luster. The decoration consists of a drawing of an ibex with two long horns running towards the right, carrying in its mouth a branch that ends in a heart-shaped leaf. The floor is decorated with branches similar to those carried by an ibex. The drawing shows details of the chest, abdomen and thigh of the deer in a three-dimensional style. Glass decorated with metallic luster is considered a new innovation that Egypt has known since the second century AH / eighth century AD, and it flourished in the Fatimid era, when drawings of animals, birds and plants were executed on the glass with the same methods used in painting on Fatimid ceramics with metallic luster. There are pieces of glass in the Benaki Museum in Athens bearing the signature of “Saad,” the Fatimid potter who became famous in the late fifth and early sixth centuries AH / late eleventh and early twelfth centuries AD. Thus, the Fatimid potters transferred their decorative methods of using metallic luster to glass pieces. In addition to decorating glass with metallic luster, Egypt knew other types of decoration on glass, such as decoration with added thin glass threads wrapped around the vessel, decorations cut with relief engraving, and decorations with stamping and added glass pieces. I also know of thick glass that resembles rock crystal and is decorated with pieces.
Sample Text	Muhammad Abbas Muhammad Selim “Part of the bottom of a glass vessel” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;eg;Mus01;23;ar

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Part of the bottom of a glass vase

(جزء من قاع إناء من الزجاج)

Publication Date 5th century AH / 11th century AD

Publication Place - Museum of Islamic Art

Subject Glass decorated with metallic luster.

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions القطر: 11.5 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 14519

Record ID object;ISL;eg;Mus01;23;ar

Library Location Museum of Islamic Art

Date 5th century AH / 11th century AD

Notes The piece is part of the bottom of a clear glass vessel decorated with brown metallic luster. The decoration consists of a drawing of an ibex with two long horns running towards the right, carrying in its mouth a branch that ends in a heart-shaped leaf. The floor is decorated with branches similar to those carried by an ibex. The drawing shows details of the chest, abdomen and thigh of the deer in a three-dimensional style. Glass decorated with metallic luster is considered a new innovation that Egypt has known since the second century AH / eighth century AD, and it flourished in the Fatimid era, when drawings of animals, birds and plants were executed on the glass with the same methods used in painting on Fatimid ceramics with metallic luster. There are pieces of glass in the Benaki Museum in Athens bearing the signature of “Saad,” the Fatimid potter who became famous in the late fifth and early sixth centuries AH / late eleventh and early twelfth centuries AD. Thus, the Fatimid potters transferred their decorative methods of using metallic luster to glass pieces. In addition to decorating glass with metallic luster, Egypt knew other types of decoration on glass, such as decoration with added thin glass threads wrapped around the vessel, decorations cut with relief engraving, and decorations with stamping and added glass pieces. I also know of thick glass that resembles rock crystal and is decorated with pieces.

Sample Text Muhammad Abbas Muhammad Selim “Part of the bottom of a glass vessel” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;eg;Mus01;23;ar