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PROPERTY OF THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND
AN IMPORTANT MAMLUK GILDED AND ENAMELLED GLASS FOOTED BOWL
PROBABLY MAMLUK SYRIA, SECOND QUARTER 14TH CENTURY
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AN IMPORTANT MAMLUK GILDED AND ENAMELLED GLASS FOOTED BOWL
PROBABLY MAMLUK SYRIA, SECOND QUARTER 14TH CENTURY
The long stem rising from a flared foot and everting to a broad bowl, the clear glass body decorated with blue, red, green, yellow and white enamels and gilded, below the rim a band of six blue roundels containing zoomorphic arabesques alternated with panels of scrolling vegetal ground decorated with lotus palmettes and elegant animal combat groups, beneath this a narrow band of scrolling floral decoration with six small blue roundels containing an eagle swooping onto a waterfowl, the bottom of the bowl with another wide band of scrolling vegetal decoration containing lotus flowers and rosettes punctuated by three floral arabesque roundels, the stem with vegetal arabesque decoration and a raised boss in the middle, the foot with an inscription in thuluth broken by three blue roundels containing eagles, the foot a later, probably 19th century, replacement
12 7/8in. (32.7cm.) high; 8in. (20.5cm.) diam.
PROBABLY MAMLUK SYRIA, SECOND QUARTER 14TH CENTURY
The long stem rising from a flared foot and everting to a broad bowl, the clear glass body decorated with blue, red, green, yellow and white enamels and gilded, below the rim a band of six blue roundels containing zoomorphic arabesques alternated with panels of scrolling vegetal ground decorated with lotus palmettes and elegant animal combat groups, beneath this a narrow band of scrolling floral decoration with six small blue roundels containing an eagle swooping onto a waterfowl, the bottom of the bowl with another wide band of scrolling vegetal decoration containing lotus flowers and rosettes punctuated by three floral arabesque roundels, the stem with vegetal arabesque decoration and a raised boss in the middle, the foot with an inscription in thuluth broken by three blue roundels containing eagles, the foot a later, probably 19th century, replacement
12 7/8in. (32.7cm.) high; 8in. (20.5cm.) diam.
Provenance
Collection of Jules-Albert Goupil, Paris (1840-1884)
'La Collection de feu M. Albert Goupil', Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 23-27 April 1888, lot 35
Louis Moritz Richard Zschille (1847-1903), Grossenhain, Saxony
Friedrich Paul Theodor Sarre (1865-1945), probably acquired in 1899
Jacob Hirsch (1874-1955), New York
Toledo Museum of Art, purchased from the above in 1954 with funds from the Libbey Endowment, a gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
'La Collection de feu M. Albert Goupil', Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 23-27 April 1888, lot 35
Louis Moritz Richard Zschille (1847-1903), Grossenhain, Saxony
Friedrich Paul Theodor Sarre (1865-1945), probably acquired in 1899
Jacob Hirsch (1874-1955), New York
Toledo Museum of Art, purchased from the above in 1954 with funds from the Libbey Endowment, a gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Literature
Catalogue de Objects d'Art de l'Orient et de l'Occident Composant la Collection de feu M. Albert Goupil, Paris, 1888, lot. 35, p.18
F. Sarre and F.R.Martin, Die Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst in München 1910, London, 1984, kat.nr.2111, tafel 171
Friedrich Sarre, Vergoldete und Emaillierte Syrische Gläser, Leihgaben in der Islamischen Kunstabteilung, Amtliche Berichte aus den Königlichen Kunstsammlungen, 32, no. 6, Berlin, 1911, pp.9-11
F. Sarre and F.R.Martin, Die Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst in München 1910, London, 1984, kat.nr.2111, tafel 171
Friedrich Sarre, Vergoldete und Emaillierte Syrische Gläser, Leihgaben in der Islamischen Kunstabteilung, Amtliche Berichte aus den Königlichen Kunstsammlungen, 32, no. 6, Berlin, 1911, pp.9-11
Exhibited
Hôtel Drouot, Collection Albert Goupil, Paris, 21-22 April 1888
On loan to the Bode Museum, Berlin (Formerly the Kaiser Friedrich Museum)
Die Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst, Munich, 1910, kat.nr.2111
Vergoldete und emaillierte syrische Gläser, Leihgaben in der islamischen Kunstabteilung (Gilded and Enamelled Syrian Glasses, Loans in the Islamic Art Department), Berlin, 1911
On loan to the Bode Museum, Berlin (Formerly the Kaiser Friedrich Museum)
Die Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst, Munich, 1910, kat.nr.2111
Vergoldete und emaillierte syrische Gläser, Leihgaben in der islamischen Kunstabteilung (Gilded and Enamelled Syrian Glasses, Loans in the Islamic Art Department), Berlin, 1911
Engraved
Around the base, possibly repetitions of, the sultanic epithet al-‘alim, ‘the learned’
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