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Cup

Cup

  • Place of origin:

    Egypt (possibly, made)

  • Date:

    1000-1200 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Transparent green glass, blown, with pincered decoration and a trailed annular handle

  • Museum number:

    C.28-1932

  • Gallery location:

    Glass, room 131, case 4, shelf 3

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This green transparent glass cup has simple decoration. It is made of blown glass and has a band of flattened ovals pincered below the rim. The glass worker formed the annular (ring-shaped) handle separately before attaching it to the body. It is difficult to identify exactly where Islamic glassware with such simple decoration was made. However, the discovery of similar wares in an 11th-century shipwreck found near the Turkish coast has provided further evidence. It suggests that this cup was made somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean coastlands. Experts think that it was probably made in Egypt in the Fatimid period (969-1171).

Physical description

Cup, green glass with pincered decoration forming a series of eight ovals just below the rim. An annular handle is attached.

Place of Origin

Egypt (possibly, made)

Date

1000-1200 (made)

Artist/maker

Unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Transparent green glass, blown, with pincered decoration and a trailed annular handle

Dimensions

Height: 11.4 cm, Diameter: 11.5 cm maximum

Historical context note

A similar cup with an annular handle (but not decorated) has been recovered from the eleventh-century Serçe Limani shipwreck.

Descriptive line

Cup, green glass with pincered decoration and annular handle, Egypt, 1000-1200

Categories

Islam; Africa

Collection code

CER

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