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Beaker13th century

Not on view
Conical glass cup with translucent pale green-gray body, decorated with a wide band of blue enamel and flowing Arabic script in rust-red around the upper third

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

Title
Beaker
Place Made
probably Syria
Date Made
13th century
Medium
Glass, enameled
Dimensions
3 3/16 x 3 7/16 in. (8.1 x 8.8 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Varya and Hans Cohn
Accession Number
M.88.129.196
Classification
Glass
Collecting Area
Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Selected Bibliography
  • Saldern, Axel von. Glass 500 B.C. to A.D. 1900: The Hans Cohn Collection. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1980.
  • Hess, Catherine. The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on Glass and Ceramics of the Italian Renaissance. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2004.
  • Vanderstukken, Koen. Glass: Virtual, Real. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2016.

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