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Name of Object:

Perfume Sprinkler with Design of Marvered White-Trail Feather Pattern

Location:

Saint Louis, United States of America

Holding Museum:

Saint Louis Art Museum

About Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis

Date of Object:

Hegira Late 5th to late 7th century / AD 12th–13th century

Museum Inventory Number:

250:1923

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Glass

Dimensions:

Height: 16.2cm, Width: 9.8cm, Depth: 4.1cm

Period / Dynasty:

Abbasid

Provenance:

Northern Africa, Egypt, Africa

Description:

A doughnut-shaped bottle made of bubbly translucent amethyst glass, blown with marvered opaque white trail decoration and dragged into a feather pattern. Opposing S-shaped handles applied in amethyst glass at shoulder and pulled up to neck. The globular form is flattened and tooled into an asymmetrical donut-shaped body. The thin elongated neck, tooled to constrict at its base and thus flattening the shoulder, is pulled up into a long tapering form with the rim rounded by heating. The base is flattened and kicked retaining a pontil mark; four small prunts of amethyst glass are applied on the sides as vestigial, but useless feet. There are losses in the neck and the body.

How date and origin were established:

Scholarly review and/or comparison to similar objects from the period.

How Object was obtained:

Museum Purchase, 1923

How provenance was established:

Scholarly review and/or comparison to similar objects from the period.

Citation of this web page:

 "Perfume Sprinkler with Design of Marvered White-Trail Feather Pattern" in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;us;Mus24;43;en

MWNF Working Number: US4 43