Footed Bowl with Marvered White Trails

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Footed Bowl with Marvered White Trails

Place of OriginEgypt

Date13th century

DimensionsH: 6.1 cm (2 9/16 in.); Rim Diam: 10.1 cm (3 7/8 in.)

MediumTranslucent purple glass; opaque white applied and marvered trails; mold-blown and tooled on the pontil

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1969.367

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Label TextThis vessel belongs to a set of six manganese (deep purple) Mamluk glass vessels with marvered white trails, acquired by TMA as a group (1969.362, 1969.363, 1969.364, 1969.365, 1969.366, 1969.367), first documented in Egypt around 1960.Published ReferencesPage, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 63, repr. (col.) fig. 23A, p. 62.Exhibition HistoryWashington, National Museum of Natural History; Minneapolis Institute of Art; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Cincinnati; Detroit; Phoenix; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks, Washington, 1981, no. 55, p. 138, repr. (col.).