ISLAMIC GLASS EAST AND WEST

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1 ISLAMIC GLASS EAST AND WEST A Journey Along the Silk Route from China to Venice STEFANO CARBONI Curator and Administrator, Department of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 1 Beaker Western Asia or Egypt, 9th 10th century Height 13.6 cm, diameter 14.2 cm Blown and relief-cut glass The Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, Purchase, Rogers Funds and Jack A. Josephson, Dr and Mrs Lewis Balamuth, and Mr and Mrs Alvin W. Pearson Gifts, 1974, Bottle Syria, mid-13th century Height 28.2 cm, maximum diameter 17.8 cm Free blown, enamelled and gilded glass Furussiya Arts Foundation, Vaduz, Liechtenstien

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3 3 Hemispherical Cup Iran or Iraq, 6th 7th century Height circa 10 cm, diameter circa 11 cm Blown and facet-cut glass Treasury of the Shoso-in Temple, Nara, Japan 4 Glass Bottle with Gold Case Bottle: Western Asia, 8th 9th century Height circa 8 cm Blown and cut glass Excavated from a tomb in Korea 5 Bottle Iran or Iraq, 6th 7th century Height 20.3 cm Blown and facet-cut glass The Corning Museum of Glass

4 6 Fragmentary Bottle Syria or Iraq, 9th century Height 32.3 cm, maximum diameter 13.5 cm Blown glass with incised decoration Al-Sabah Collection, National Museum, Kuwait, LNS 375 G

5 8 7 Detail of Fragmentary Plate Syria or Iraq, 9th century Maximum diameter 28 cm Blown glass with incised decoration Excavated in Nishapur by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1940,

6 13 Cup Possibly Iraq, 9th century Height circa 9 cm Blown glass with impressed decoration Museum of the Famen Temple, Shaanxi province, China 12 Bottle Probably Syria, 8th 9th century Height circa 10 cm Blown glass with applied decoration Museum of the Famen Temple, Shaanxi Province, China 8 11 Four Plates Syria or Iraq, 9th century Average diameter 25 cm Blown glass with incised decoration Museum of the Famen Temple, Shaanxi province, China

7 14 Bowl Probably Iran, 9th century Height circa 8 cm, diameter circa 20 cm Blown glass with cut decoration Found in the tomb of Princess Cheng-kuo, Inner Mongolia, China 15 Bottle within Bottle Probably Iran, 9th 10th century Height circa 22 cm Blown glass with applied decoration Found in the Northern Pagoda of Chaoyang, China

8 16 Bottle Probably Syria, late 13th century Height 40 cm, maximum diameter 27 cm Free blown, enamelled and gilded glass Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, inv Bowl Probably Iran, 8th 9th century Height 9 cm, maximum diameter 40 cm Blown and cut glass Treasury of the Cathedral of Genoa, Italy

9 18 Glass Cullet from the Serçe Limani Shipwreck Eastern Mediterranean coast, early 11th century Blown glass Museum of Underwater Archaeology, Bodrum, Turkey 19 Plate Iznik, Turkey, circa 1580 Diameter 31 cm Underglaze painted fritware Musée national de la Renaissance, Ecouen, E.Cl Bowl Iran, probably Shiraz, mid-14th century Diameter 24 cm Cast brass inlaid with gold and silver Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, I.3580

10 21 Parade Shield Venice, late 16th century Diameter 59.8 cm Wood, leather, iron, silver, paint and varnish The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Plate with the Coat of Arms of Andreas Imhoff and Ursula Schlaudersbach of Nürnberg Venice, circa Diameter 42.8 cm Maiolica (underglaze painted tin-glazed earthenware) Fioritura collection, Heinz & Jertha Kuckei, Berlin 23 Fragment from the Pulpit of the Church of San Giovanni Fuorcivitas in Pistoia Venetian glassmakers, circa 1270 Maximum height 81 cm, maximum width 101 cm Carved marble with insets of glass tiles painted in gold on the reverse Museo Diocesano, Pistoia

11 26 The Aldrevandin Beaker Venice, late 13th early 14th century Height 13 cm, maximum diameter 10.9 cm Free blown and enamelled glass Trustees of The British Museum, London, Pilgrim s Flask Probably Syria, third quarter of the 13th century Height 36 cm, width 27 cm Free blown, applied, enamelled and gilded glass The Cathedral and Diocesan Museum, Vienna L-6 24 Two Beakers Syria, circa 1260 Beaker (right): height 18.5 cm, diameter 12.1 cm, beaker (left): height 17 cm, diameter 10.5 cm Free blown, enamelled and gilded glass The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, and 47.18

12 27 Beaker Venice, late 13th early 14th century Height 11.3 cm, diameter 9.5 cm Free blown and enamelled glass Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Mosque Lamp Cairo, Egypt, circa Height 40.7 cm, maximum diameter 28.5 cm Free blown, enamelled and gilded Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Beaker Venice, late 13th early 14th century Height 11.3 cm, diameter 9.5 cm Free blown and enamelled glass Amendt Collection, Dusseldorf

13 31 Mosque Lamp Venice, 16th century Height circa 28 cm Free blown glass decorated with twisted opaque-white canes; gilded on the surface; applied suspension rings Topkapi Sarayi Müzesi, Istanbul 30 Mosque Lamp Egypt, circa Height 35.6 cm, max. diameter 23.9 cm Free blown, enamelled and gilded The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917, Design for a Mosque Lamp Probably by Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Istanbul, 1569 Ink on paper Archivio di Stato, Venice 33 Design for a Cesendello Probably by Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Istanbul, 1569 Ink on paper Archivio di Stato, Venice

14 34 Salviati & Co. Mosque lamp commissioned by the khedive of Egypt, Venice, 1867 Height circa 32 cm Free blown, enamelled and gilded glass Collection of the Salviati glass factory, Venice 35 Bottle Attributed to Philippe-Joseph Brocard, Paris, circa Height 50.9 cm, maximum diameter 22.7 cm Free blown, enamelled and gilded glass The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Anthony Blumka, in honour of Justin Frederick Nasatir, 1998, Glass Lumps from the Serçe Limani Shipwreck Eastern Mediterranean coast, early 11th century Museum of Underwater Archaeology, Bodrum, Turkey 36 Animal Flask Syria, 7th 8th century Height 8.6 cm Free blown and applied glass The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Friends of Islamic Art Gift,