Author
Unknown
Publication Date
900
Publication Place
Egypt (made) Iran (made) -
Subject
Islam Africa
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Height: 14.3cm, Maximum diameter: 7.8cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
C.29-1932
Record ID
C.29-1932
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
900
Notes
This cut-glass bottle has a high, curved foot, a globular body and a tall, flaring neck. It is made from transparent glass with a green tinge. The glass worker has decorated the body with four wheel-cut drop motifs and cut a double moulding into the shoulder. The neck has faceted sides and a collar around the rim. Glass workers made bottles of this type in the Middle East in the 9th to 11th centuries, and they may have been made in both Egypt and Iran. The discovery of a similar piece in an 11th-century shipwreck found near the Turkish coast has provided new evidence. It suggests that such pieces were more likely to have been made somewhere in the East Mediterranean coastlands. Experts therefore think that this jug was probably made in Egypt in the Fatimid period (969-1171).
Tarihsel bağlam
Necks of comparable bottles cut on the wheel with similar decorative motifs have been found in Persia, datable from the second half of the ninth to the early tenth century, and in Egypt, datable to the ninth to eleventh centuries. a very similar bottle has been found among the eleventh-century glass of the shipwreck of Serçce Limani.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Wheelcut glass
Fiziksel açıklama
This cut glass bottle, made from transparent glass with a green tinge, has a high, curved foot, a globular body and a tall, flaring neck. The body is decorated with four wheel-cut drop motifs; a double moulding has been cut into the shoulder; and the neck has faceted sides and a collar around the rim.
Üslup
Fatimid
