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Goblet with incised designs
New York, United States of America
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Hegira late 1st–late 3rd century / AD 8th–9th century
65.173.1
Glass, bluish green; blown, applied solid stem and blown foot; scratch-engraved
H: 11.7cm, Diameter of rim: 9cm
Abbasid
Probably Iraq or Syria
This goblet belongs to a distinctive group of glass vessels with scratch-engraved decoration that share stylistic and decorative similarities with one another. Some objects bear inscriptions, such as the kufic calligraphy on this goblet that reads, "Drink! Blessings from God to the owner of the goblet". Formulas including good wishes were commonly found on eating and drinking vessels in both pottery and glass.
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965
Vendor: Mohammad Yeganeh, Frankfurt
Former owner [dealer]: [Mohammad Yeganeh, Frankfurt, until 1965; sold to MMA]
Carboni, Stefano, and Whitehouse, David, Glass from Islamic Lands. The al-Sabah Collection, Kuweit National Museum, New York: Thames and Hudson, 2001: 76–81.
Carboni, Stefano, Whitehouse, David, Brill Robert H., and William Gudenrath, Glass of the Sultans, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001: 164-65, no. 71, ill. p. 165 (colour).
Clairmont, Christoph, "Some Islamic glass in the Metropolitan Museum", in Richard
Ettinghausen (ed), Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972: 146, ill. fig. 8 (b/w).
Ekhtiar, Maryam, Canby, Sheila R., Haidar, Navina and Soucek, Priscilla P. (eds), Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1st ed., New York: The uMetropolitan Museum of Art, 2011: 39, no. 16, ill. p. 39 (colour).
Ekhtiar, Maryam, How to Read Islamic Calligraphy, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018: 15–16, ill. fig. 2
Jenkins-Madina, Marilyn, "Islamic Glass: A Brief History", Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 44/2 (Fall 1986): 19, ill. fig. 16 (colour).
Lamm, Carl Johan, Das Glas von Samarra. Forschungen zur Islamischen Kunst, Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1928.
Scanlon, George T., and Pinder-Wilson, Ralph, Fustat Glass of the Early Islamic Period. Finds Excavated by the American Research Center in Egypt, 1964–1980, London : Altajir World of Islam Trust, 2001: 82–83, ill. fig. 39, pl. 39a.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965
"Goblet with incised designs" in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;us;Mus23;35;en
MWNF Working Number: US3 35
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