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The Priuli Wine Cup (popular title)

Title	The Priuli Wine Cup (popular title)
Author	Unknown
Publication Date:	1400
Publication Place	Syria (made) Damascus (decorated) Egypt (made) -
Subject	Metalwork Africa
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	Height: 25.5cm (Note: Height of the highest handle. Height of the bowl under the handle is 22.5cm ), Width: 39.5cm (Note: With the handles. The width of the bowl measuring across the side without handles is 31cm although it is not completely circular. ),
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	311-1854
Record ID	311-1854
Library Location	Middle East Section
Date	1400
Notes	Middle East, Metalwork. The Priuli Wine-Cup, cup with pedestal foot and handles, both added later in Italy, brass with engraved and silver-inlaid decoration in horizontal registers of flowers, foliate scrollwork and cartouches of cruciforms and Arabic poetry inscriptions, Egypt or Syria, 1400-1500
Sample Text	Inside the bowl: coat of arms of the Priuli family of Venice, On the exterior: Two verses from an Arabic poem known also found on other Mamluk metalwork
Tarihsel bağlam	This object belongs to a genre of metalwork long known as 'Veneto-Saracenic' on the presumption that these elaborately inlaid wares were made by Muslim craftsmen ('Saracens') working in Venice. While this theory is no longer considered tenable, the trade links between Venice and the Middle East were indeed strong, and the Mamluk export industry based in Damascus was a major source of inlaid brassware for the Venetian market in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The popularity of these wares eventually inspired Venetian metalworkers to develop a host of imitation-Islamic brasses of their own.
Malzemeler ve teknikler	Brass, engraved and damascened Brass Engraved Inlay
Fiziksel açıklama	Wine cup with two handles and a high foot; both the handles and the foot are separate pieces which were added later. Brass, incised and inlaid with silver in bands of vegetal ornament. Two prominent Arabic inscriptions on the side of the bowl come from a poem which also appears in examples of Mamluk metalwork, while the inside of the bowl was later incised with the coat of arms of the Priuli family of Venice set within imitation-Islamic vegetal ornament.
Üretim	Foot added in Venice about 1450-1500, also the handles 1550-1600

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The Priuli Wine Cup (popular title)

Author Unknown

Publication Date 1400

Publication Place Syria (made) Damascus (decorated) Egypt (made) -

Subject Metalwork Africa

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions Height: 25.5cm (Note: Height of the highest handle. Height of the bowl under the handle is 22.5cm ), Width: 39.5cm (Note: With the handles. The width of the bowl measuring across the side without handles is 31cm although it is not completely circular. ),

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 311-1854

Record ID 311-1854

Library Location Middle East Section

Date 1400

Notes Middle East, Metalwork. The Priuli Wine-Cup, cup with pedestal foot and handles, both added later in Italy, brass with engraved and silver-inlaid decoration in horizontal registers of flowers, foliate scrollwork and cartouches of cruciforms and Arabic poetry inscriptions, Egypt or Syria, 1400-1500

Sample Text Inside the bowl: coat of arms of the Priuli family of Venice, On the exterior: Two verses from an Arabic poem known also found on other Mamluk metalwork

Tarihsel bağlam This object belongs to a genre of metalwork long known as 'Veneto-Saracenic' on the presumption that these elaborately inlaid wares were made by Muslim craftsmen ('Saracens') working in Venice. While this theory is no longer considered tenable, the trade links between Venice and the Middle East were indeed strong, and the Mamluk export industry based in Damascus was a major source of inlaid brassware for the Venetian market in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The popularity of these wares eventually inspired Venetian metalworkers to develop a host of imitation-Islamic brasses of their own.

Malzemeler ve teknikler Brass, engraved and damascened Brass Engraved Inlay

Fiziksel açıklama Wine cup with two handles and a high foot; both the handles and the foot are separate pieces which were added later. Brass, incised and inlaid with silver in bands of vegetal ornament. Two prominent Arabic inscriptions on the side of the bowl come from a poem which also appears in examples of Mamluk metalwork, while the inside of the bowl was later incised with the coat of arms of the Priuli family of Venice set within imitation-Islamic vegetal ornament.

Üretim Foot added in Venice about 1450-1500, also the handles 1550-1600