Eye Bowl

Glassware

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Museum of Antiquities - University of Saskatchewan

Front: "Eye" Jar 2019-08-14
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"Eye" Jar 2019-08-14

Name/Title

"Eye" Bowl

Entry/Object ID

11NE-Mi36-174

Description

The rim is round and uneven. The squat cylindrical body has straight walls that curve in towards the base. Along the walls are two uneven horizontal rows of impressed oval disks with central bosses, creating an "eye"-shape. The top row has six "eyes" and the bottom row has seven. The base is flat with a pontil mark. The vessel is intact with trace iridescence and cracks which run between three of the "eyes".

Use

Tableware

Context

Vessels with this impressed ornamentation have been identified on vessels found in Iran, Iraq, and Egypt. The ornamentation was believed to be made in parts of Western Asia and Egypt until the eleventh century CE, sometimes called a Guilloche pattern. However, this type of ornamentation originated in Sasanian Iran in the sixth to seventh centuries CE.

Made/Created

Date made

800 CE - 1000 CE

Time Period

Islamic Golden Age

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

Near Eastern - Islamic

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

3.7 cm

Diameter

5.3 cm

Material

Glass

Web Links and URLs

Victoria and Albert Museum Online Database

Research Notes

Research Type

Reference

Notes

Oppenheim, A. Leo, Robert H. Brill, Dan Barag, and Axel Von Saldern. Glass and Glassmaking in Ancient Mesopotamia. New York: The Corning Museum of Glass, 1970. Note Page 184.

Research Type

Reference

Notes

Carboni, Stefano and David Whitehouse. Glass of the Sultans. New York: The Metropolitan Museum, 2001. Note Page 89, Cat.15.

Research Type

Reference

Notes

Whitehouse, David. Islamic Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass Vol. I. New York: The Corning Museum of Glass, 2010. Note Page 76; Page 79-81, Cat.121, Cat.123, Cat.125.

Research Type

Reference

Notes

Carboni, Stefano. Glass from Islamic Lands. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc, 2001. Note Page 286, Cat.3.55a.