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Verre byzantin et islamiqueByzantine and Islamic Glass

Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert

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WARD, Rachel
Big Mamluk Buckets
Annales du 16e Congrès de l'Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre (London 2003)
AIHV, Nottingham, 2005, p. 182-185
The Corning Museum of Glass (Corning) ; Historisches Landesmuseum (Kassel) ; Museum für Islamisches Kunst (Berlin) ; Rothschild private collection ( )

[1301, 1400]
• Deals with the issue of Mamluk glass vessels thought to be European imitations made in the 19th century.

• The Rothshild bucket (big beaker) (probably last quarter of the 14th century):
– inscriptions:
Anā aḥtawī al-maʾ al-sirr (”I contain pleasant water”);
Inna ʿiṯyar al-anāmil ṣurratī (”Indeed, dust of the fingers is my reward”).
– iconographie : lion, double-headed eagle, friezes of palmettes.

• The Kassel bucket (last quarter of the 14th century):
– kufic pseudo-inscription, blue enamel frames, floating tendrils, sketchy floral scroll.

• Chemical analyses: Na2O, MgO, Al2O3, SiO2, P2O5, SO3, Cl, K2O, CaO, TiO2, Cr2O3, MnO, Fe2O3, CoO, NiO, CuO, ZnO, As2O3, SnO2, Sb2O3, BaO, PbO.

Version 5, données dudata date 30 janvier 2013January 30th 2013