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Name of Object:

Goblet with incised designs

Location:

New York, United States of America

Holding Museum:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Date of Object:

Hegira late 1st–late 3rd century / AD 8th–9th century

Museum Inventory Number:

65.173.1

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Glass, bluish green; blown, applied solid stem and blown foot; scratch-engraved

Dimensions:

H: 11.7cm, Diameter of rim: 9cm

Period / Dynasty:

Abbasid

Provenance:

Probably Iraq or Syria

Description:

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.

How Object was obtained:

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965

Vendor: Mohammad Yeganeh, Frankfurt

Former owner [dealer]: [Mohammad Yeganeh, Frankfurt, until 1965; sold to MMA]

Selected bibliography:

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.

Additional Copyright Information:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965

Citation of this web page:

 "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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