Green Glass Bowl With Bird Decoration
Green Glass Bowl With Bird Decoration
Place of OriginIslamic, probably Egypt
Datelate 9th-10th century CE
DimensionsDiam: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)
MediumGlass; tooled and impressed.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
2004.80
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Published ReferencesA Peaceable Kingdom: The Leo Mildenberg Collection of Ancient Animals, Christie's, London, October 26, 2004, p.121, lot 181.
- Glass
Zahlhaas, Gisela, Aus Noahs Arche: Tierbilder der Sammlung Mildenberg aus fünf Jahrtausenden, 1997, no. 53 (object A).
Whitehouse and Carboni, Glass of the Sultans, New York, 2001, p. 103, fig. 93; cf. ibid pp. 131-132, no. 48 (Berlin example).
Exhibition HistoryCleveland Museum of Art; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington; Toledo Museum of Art; J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu; and University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Mainz: von Zabern Verlag, 1981-1983, I, nos. 43 and 44 respectively (Arielle P. Kozloff, editor).
6th-7th Century
3rd-4th century CE
Mid- to late 4th century CE
Sixth to early seventh centuries
3600-2200 BCE
Late second to early third century
Second half of the first century CE
1st-4th century CE
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