Condition
Mended with a concealed join at the transition from the neck to the body. Iridescence on the exterior and incrustation on the interior.
Description
Cut-off rim; conical neck; sloping shoulder; cylindrical body, mildly tapering toward the base; slightly concave bottom. No pontil mark visible on the bottom.
Comments and Comparanda
This form of small, cylindrical flask with relatively short, conical neck is well documented from various sites, dated between the ninth and eleventh centuries. Tunisia: Sabra al-Mansuriyya (Foy, Danièle. 2020. Le verre de Sabra al-Mansuriya (Kairouan, Tunisie), milieu Xe–milieu XIe siècle. Production et consommation: Vaisselle–contenants–vitrages. Archaeology of the Maghreb 1. Oxford: Archaeopress., pp. 71–73, form Sb7, wherein numerous parallels are cited); Raqqada (Skik, K. 1971/72. “La collection de verres musulmans de fabrication locale conservés dans les musées de Tunisie.” Bulletin de l’Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre 6: 87–102., fig. 82; Yacoub, M. 2000. L’histoire du verre en Tunisie, ou, Éclipse et renaissance d’un métier d’art. Tunis: Noir sur blanc., fig. 125). Egypt: 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. 41–43, form 17g = Whitehouse, David B. 2014. Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol. 2. Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass., p. 58, no. 689, 69.1.47). Palestine: Tiberias (Lester, Ayala. 1996. “The Glass from Yoqne’am: The Early Islamic, Crusader, and Mamluk Periods.” In A. Ben-Tor et al. Yoqne’am 1: The Late Periods, 202–217. Qedem Report 3. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, the Hebrew University., pp. 206–207, plate XVII:7–8, Early Islamic; Hadad, Shulamit. 2008. “Glass Vessels.” In Yizhar Hirschfeld and Oren Gutfeld, Tiberias: Excavations in the House of the Bronzes. Final Report, 167–189. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem., p. 171, plate 5.4, no. 45); Beit She’an (Hadad, Shulamit. 2005. Islamic Glass Vessels from the Hebrew University Excavations at Bet Shean. Qedem Report 8. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem., pp. 39–40, plate 35: no. 695); Ramla (Gorin-Rosen, Yael. 2010. “The Islamic Glass Vessels.” In Oren Gutfeld, Ramla: Final Report on the Excavations North of the White Mosque, 213–264. Qedem Report 51. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem., pp. 230–231, fig. 10.5, no. 3); Lebanon: Beirut (Jennings, S. 2004/5. Vessel Glass from Beirut. BEY 006, 007, and 045. Berytus Archaeological Studies 48–49. Beirut: American University of Beirut., p. 214). Yemen: Sharma (Foy, Danièle. 2015. “Les verres.” In Sharma: Un entrepôt de commerce médiéval sur la côte du Hadramawt (Yémen, ca 980–1180), ed. Axelle Rougeulle, 323–367. British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Monographs 17. Oxford: Archaeopress., pp. 327, 348–349). Türkiye: Serçe Limanı (Cullen, C. L. 2009. “Perfume Flasks.” In George F. Bass, Robert H. Brill, Berta Lledo, and Sheila D. Matthews, Serçe Limani, vol. 2: The Glass of an Eleventh-Century Shipwreck, Serçe Limani, 236–241. College Station: Texas A&M University Press., pp. 236–241).
Provenance
1979, Edwin A. Lipps, 1922–1988 (Pacific Palisades, California), donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1979
Bibliography
Unpublished
Exhibitions
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