Lot 263
A small Mamluk enamel glass Beaker Syria, 13th/14th Century
29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £8,962.50 inc. premium
Looking for a similar item?
Our Islamic and Indian Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistA small Mamluk enamel glass Beaker
Syria, 13th/14th Century
Syria, 13th/14th Century
pale greenish-yellow, outsplayed mouth with rounded rim on a gently tapering body and applied base with pontil mark underneath, decorated below the rim with a thin red enamel line above a rubbed band of gilded arcading, and four red lines enclosing two gilded bands sandwiching one composed of small opaque light blue enamel dots, the lower body a thin red line with a rubbed band of inverted gilt arcading mirroring the decoration on the mouth
13 cm. high; 7 cm. diam.
13 cm. high; 7 cm. diam.
Footnotes
For a beaker found at Quft (Koptos) in Upper Egypt and now in the British Museum of similar form and decorated all over with identical fishes, see Hugh Tait (ed.), Five Thousand Years of Glass (London 1991), fig. 164 on p. 131; and for a beaker with a band of dots in white in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, see Stefano Carboni, Glass from Islamic Lands, London, 2001, no. 87.