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Collections

Bottle11th-12th century

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Islamic Art and Late Antiquity
Blown glass vessel with elongated teardrop body tapering to a point, in dusty rose-pink deepening to eggplant purple, with a weathered, chalky surface and subtle vertical ribbing
Blown glass vessel in translucent amethyst purple, elongated conical body tapering to a pointed base with vertical ribbed molding, narrow neck with flared rim, shown horizontally against a white background.
Blown glass bottle in translucent amethyst purple, with a teardrop-shaped ribbed body tapering to a pointed base and a narrow cylindrical neck with a slightly irregular rim.
Title
Bottle
Place Made
Egypt
Date Made
11th-12th century
Medium
Glass, mold-blown and tooled; free-blown and tooled
Dimensions
Height: 5 1/16 in. (12.85 cm)
Credit Line
The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2002.1.477
Classification
Glass
Collecting Area
Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Curatorial Notes

This bottle features fluted decoration along its body produced by blowing molten glass into a ribbed mold. Its tapering form represents a type that was designed to hold nonliquid cosmetics like kohl, a mixture of lead or charcoal combined with oils and used since ancient times as eyeliner.

Selected Bibliography

  • Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: Arte Islámico siglos VII al XIX Colección del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles. Santiago: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2015.

  • Komaroff, Linda. Beauty and Identity: Islamic Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.