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Beaker12th-13th century

Not on view
Ancient glass beaker with deep midnight blue body, heavily weathered with silver-gray and teal iridescent surface degradation, pale rim, and vertical pale glass trails

Unknown, Beaker, 12th-13th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Varya and Hans Cohn, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Beaker
Place Made
Eastern Mediterranean
Date Made
12th-13th century
Medium
Glass, free-blown, with unmarvered thread decoration
Dimensions
Height: 4 1/8 in. (10.2 cm); Diameter: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Varya and Hans Cohn
Accession Number
M.88.129.192
Classification
Glass
Collecting Area
Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Selected Bibliography
  • Komaroff, Linda. Islamic Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Museum Associates, 2005.
  • Saldern, Axel von. Glass 500 B.C. to A.D. 1900: The Hans Cohn Collection. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1980.

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