Condition
Pastiche. The glass object is part of a flattened spout, quite probably from an ibrik. The upper, curved part of the object is some kind of plaster.
Description
Conical tube, part of a spout, sealed on one end with some plaster-like substance.
Comments and Comparanda
This fragment belongs to a spouted ewer, known as an ibrik in the Islamic and Ottoman worlds. Glass examples are known from the tenth–twelfth centuries (Goldstein, Sidney M., J. M. Rogers, Melanie Gibson, and Jens Kröger. 2005. Glass: From Sasanian Antecedents to European Imitations. Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art 15. London: Nour Foundation., p. 222, no. 257; Taniichi, Takashi. 1987. Catalogue of Near Eastern Glass in the Okayama Orient Museum, vol. 4: Catalogue of Ancient Glass. Okayama: The Museum., p. 52 no. 95) and up to the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire (Carboni, Stefano, and David Whitehouse, eds. 2001. Glass of the Sultans, exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art., p. 294, no. 149; Goldstein, Sidney M., J. M. Rogers, Melanie Gibson, and Jens Kröger. 2005. Glass: From Sasanian Antecedents to European Imitations. Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art 15. London: Nour Foundation., pp. 304–305, nos. 325–328).
Provenance
1979, Edwin A. Lipps, 1922–1988 (Pacific Palisades, California), donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1979
Bibliography
Unpublished
Exhibitions
None