Condition
Mended and filled with resin.
Description
Fire-polished, thickened rim; conical body; flat, slightly concave bottom, irregular with small bumps. Scar of a solid pontil (W. 1.3 cm) is visible at the center of the bottom.
Comments and Comparanda
Conical bowls are a very popular shape among Islamic glassware. They occur either undecorated, like this example, or with mold-blown motifs, such as ribs or crosshatching (cf. von Saldern, Axel. 1974. Glassammlung Hentrich. Antike und Islam. Düsseldorf: Kunstmuseum., pp. 207–209, nos. 312–317; Kröger, Jens. 1995. Nishapur: Glass of the Early Islamic Period. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art., p. 93, no. 130). Parallels include finds from Fustat (Scanlon, George T., and Ralph H. Pinder-Wilson. 2001. Fustat Glass of the Early Islamic Period: Finds Excavated by the American Research Center in Egypt, 1964–1980. London: Altajir World of Islam Trust., pp. 23–24, 26 form 2e, or 5b) and in museum collections, such as the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf (von Saldern, Axel. 1974. Glassammlung Hentrich. Antike und Islam. Düsseldorf: Kunstmuseum., p. 352, nos. 349–350) and the Corning Museum of Glass (Whitehouse, David B. 2014. Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol. 2. Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass., p. 33, nos. 638–639). The thickened rim and the flat bottom link this bowl to a form of bowls with vertical sides that have this type of rim and bottom; they are dated to the tenth century, e.g., Kröger, Jens. 1995. Nishapur: Glass of the Early Islamic Period. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art., p. 45, nos. 11–12.
Provenance
1979, Edwin A. Lipps, 1922–1988 (Pacific Palisades, California), donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1979
Bibliography
Unpublished
Exhibitions
None