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Sculpture, Room 111, The Gilbert Bayes Gallery

Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Paris (made)

Rock crystal is a transparent, colourless quartz. The art of carving rock crystal was known in Roman times and in Egypt under the Fatimid dynasty (909-1171). In Europe it was practised mainly in the north, but also in Italy. The Miseroni family, working in Milan then Prague from the 1550s, supplied the courts of Europe with rock crystal.

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Category	Sculpture
Object type	Ewer
Title	Ewer
Materials and techniques	Rock crystal, mounted in gold Rock Crystal
Brief description	Ewer, rock crystal, France (Paris), ca. 1300-50
Credit line	Bequeathed by John Jones
Summary	Rock crystal is a transparent, colourless quartz. The art of carving rock crystal was known in Roman times and in Egypt under the Fatimid dynasty (909-1171). In Europe it was practised mainly in the north, but also in Italy. The Miseroni family, working in Milan then Prague from the 1550s, supplied the courts of Europe with rock crystal.
Bibliographic references	List of Objects in the Art Division, South Kensington Museum acquired during the Year 1882. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1883. pp. 77 Longhurst, M.H. 'Some crystals of the Fatimid period'. Burlington Magazine. 1928. pp.149-50 Halinlosev, H.R and Brugger, S. 'Corpus der Hartsteinschliffe des 12-15 Jahrhunderts.' Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege. Berlin, 1988. 42. p. 203-205 No. 487. Alcouffe, Daniel. Les Gemmes de la Couvonne. Paris, 2001. pp. 232 Catalogue of the Jones Bequest. 1924 Trusted, Marjorie, ed. The Making of Sculpture. The Materials and Techniques of European sculpture. London, 2007. pp.136, pl. 252
Collection	Sculpture Collection
Accession number	857-1882

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Record created	March 8, 2005
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O110018/ewer-ewer-unknown/

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