MOORE, Olivier

WARD, Rachel

Gilded and Enamelled Glass from the Middle East

British Museum Press, London, 1998, p. 78-84

British Museum (LondresLondon) ; Famen Si Museum (Xian) ; Lintong Museum (Lintong) ; Nanjing Museum (Nanjing)

fouilles excavations

[1, 1300]

assiette plate bol bowl cruche ewer flacon flask gobelet beaker

décoration appliquée applied decoration facette facet-cut gravé engraved lustré stained, lustre-painted émaillé enamelled

• Discovery of Islamic glass in China:
– temples: Famen Si; Qingshan; Jingzhi; Huiguang Pagoda; Pagoda at Wuwei (Anhui); Chaoyang North Pagoda, Dule;
– tombs: Luoyang (Henen); Fuzhou (Fujian); Chifeng and Naimanqi (Inner Mongolia); Chaoyang.

• Foreign glass vessels highly esteemed in Chinese elite society from at least the first century A.D. onwards.
• Commercial roads from eastern Mediterranean to China.
• Local Chinese production of glass.
• Glass listed in Buddhist scripture high among the precious materials out of which, for instance, alms bowls should be made.
• Glass vessels in medieval Chinese Buddhist iconography, especially as holy attributes in the hands of Bodhisattvas (for ex. mural paintings in caves at Dunhuang of the Tang Period (618-907): fig. 19.6.

figuration representation sources écrites written sources

lieux de pratiques religieuses
places of religious practices   temple
temple structures funéraires
burial structures  tombe
tomb

Chine China

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