Verre byzantin et islamiqueByzantine and Islamic Glass
Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert
VON SALDERN, Axel
Byzantine Glass: Problems of Terminology and Chronology
WARD, Rachel
Gilded and Enamelled Glass from the Middle East
British Museum Press, London, 1998, p. 1-3
The Corning Museum of Glass (Corning) ; Kunstmuseum (Düsseldorf) ; Oppenländer Collection (Waiblingen) ; Treasury of San Marco (VeniseVenice)
[401, 1200]
bol bowl bouteille bottle carreau tile coupe cup gobelet beaker lampe lamp tesselle tessera vitre window glass
gold sandwich glass" "gold sandwich glass" abrasion abrasion doré gilded gravé engraved incisé incised lustré stained, lustre-painted soufflé dans un moule mould-blown émaillé enamelled
• Byzantine glass:
– Made within the Byzantine Empire between the death of Theodosius in 395 to soon after the sack of Constantinople in 1204.
– Questions with regard to missing archaeological evidence in Constantinople glassmaking tradition.
– Vigorous trade within Byzantium and contacts with various foreign empires - Sasanian, Muslim, Latin and later the seafaring city states of Venice and Genoa - led to the import of ideas and techniques and the export of luxury wares.
• Examples of decorated byzantine glass:
– mould-blown vessels decorated with Christian or Jewish symbols, bought by pilgrims to Jerusalem (fig. 1.1.; c. 578-636);
– so-called “mystic bottles” of black glass with diagonal ribs (fig. 1.2.; 5th or 6th century);
– wall-tiles with triangles forming a cross within a square, protected by a layer of clear glass - ”gold sandwich glass” (fig. 1.3.; 12th century);
– enamelled bowl in the San Marco treasury (fig. col. A; 10th-11th century);
– gilded and occasionally enamelled bottles of the type found at Corinth and Paphos (fig. 2.1. - 2.5.; late 12th - early 13th century).
– Made within the Byzantine Empire between the death of Theodosius in 395 to soon after the sack of Constantinople in 1204.
– Questions with regard to missing archaeological evidence in Constantinople glassmaking tradition.
– Vigorous trade within Byzantium and contacts with various foreign empires - Sasanian, Muslim, Latin and later the seafaring city states of Venice and Genoa - led to the import of ideas and techniques and the export of luxury wares.
• Examples of decorated byzantine glass:
– mould-blown vessels decorated with Christian or Jewish symbols, bought by pilgrims to Jerusalem (fig. 1.1.; c. 578-636);
– so-called “mystic bottles” of black glass with diagonal ribs (fig. 1.2.; 5th or 6th century);
– wall-tiles with triangles forming a cross within a square, protected by a layer of clear glass - ”gold sandwich glass” (fig. 1.3.; 12th century);
– enamelled bowl in the San Marco treasury (fig. col. A; 10th-11th century);
– gilded and occasionally enamelled bottles of the type found at Corinth and Paphos (fig. 2.1. - 2.5.; late 12th - early 13th century).
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