Vase with "Bird" Medallions

Place of OriginSyria or Iraq

Date7th-8th century

DimensionsH: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm); Diam: 3 in. (7.4 cm)

MediumGlass; blown and tooled on the pontil with applied medallions

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.2015

Not on View

DescriptionPale brownish colorless glass. Applied decoration and base; flared, bevelled rim; spherical body; shoulder with applied and crimped band; body with five applied medallions, each depicting a bird; applied circular base.

Published ReferencesLamm, Carl Johan, Mittelaterliche Gläser und Steinschnittarbeiten aus dem Nahen Osten, Berlin, 1929-1930, I, fig. 4, p. 63; II, fig. 4, p. 15, repr. (dated 500 A.D.).

Pasquier, Jacqueline, Histoire du verre: les chefs-d'oeuvres de I'Islam, Paris, Massin, 2007, p. 18, repr. (col.) p. 19.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 56, repr. (col.) fig. 20B, p. 57.

Exhibition HistoryCorning Museum of Glass; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Athens, Benaki Museum, Glass of the Sultans, 2001-2002, no. 36, p. 118-20, repr. (col.). [not in Athens].