拍品专文
Much of the inscription is illegible, but what can be read shows it to have been a typical Mamluk honorific legend beginning 'izz li-mawlana al-malik........ (glory to our lord the king ........).
This form of glass beaker with a single band of decoration most of the way up the body is generally attributed to the Syrian region in the second half of the 13th century. What was probably a nest of four other examples (or maybe what remains of a much larger set) survives, three in the Khalili collection; the fourth in the al-Sabah Collection (Michail Piotrovsky and John Vrieze (eds.): Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art, Amsterdam, 1999, no.169, p.202; Stefano Carboni: Glass from Islamic Lands, London, 2001, no.87, pp.334-5).
This form of glass beaker with a single band of decoration most of the way up the body is generally attributed to the Syrian region in the second half of the 13th century. What was probably a nest of four other examples (or maybe what remains of a much larger set) survives, three in the Khalili collection; the fourth in the al-Sabah Collection (Michail Piotrovsky and John Vrieze (eds.): Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art, Amsterdam, 1999, no.169, p.202; Stefano Carboni: Glass from Islamic Lands, London, 2001, no.87, pp.334-5).