Cup

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Object Name: 
Cup
Place Made: 
Iran, probably Amlash
Accession Number: 
60.1.3
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.9 cm; Rim Diam: 13 cm, Th: 0.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
400-599
Primary Description: 
Cup. Almost colorless, with yellow tinge; few minute bubbles. Blown; facet-cut. Cup: hemispherical. Rim beveled; wall curves down and in; base small and concave. Entire outer surface decorated with five continuous horizontal rows of contiguous cut, ground and polished facets surrounding hollow circular facet at base (in descending order): one row of 19 facets, each with rounded top, vertical sides, and V-shaped bottom; three rows of 19 hexagonal facets, each with smaller facets then those in the row above it; and one row of seven circular facets.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Rabenou, Khahil, Source
1960
Category: 
Sasanian
Color: 
yellow
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (2)

Splendeur des Sassanides
Venue(s)
Musees Royaux d' Art et d' Histoire 1993-02-11 through 1993-05-25
The Royal Hunter: Art of the Sasanian Empire
Venue(s)
Cleveland Museum of Art 1978-01 through 1978-08
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1978-01 through 1978-08
Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas 1978-01 through 1978-08
 

Publications (11)

Glass, Gilding & Grand Design (2007) illustrated, p. 30, fig. 15; BIB# 103121
Disentangling Material Cultures: Late Roman and Sasanian Facet Cut Glassware in Late Antiquity (2006) illustrated, p. 123, fig. 1; BIB# 80238
Les Perses sassanides (2006) pp. 151-152, #96; BIB# 94091
Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (2005) illustrated, pp. 42-43, #46; BIB# 88262
Mon'yoron : mon'yo, Shiruku Rodo no jidai (2001) illustrated, p. 100; BIB# 71862
New History of World Art - Western Asia (2000-02) p. 317, ill. #291;
Splendeur des Sassanides: L'Empire Perse Entre Rome et la Chine (224-642) (1993) p. 264, ill.; BIB# 44532
Unesco maritime route of silk roads : Nara Symposium ’91 : report / Unesco (1993) p. 78 fig. 7; BIB# 44705
The Royal Hunter : Art of the Sasanian Empire (1978) 175 p.; BIB# 19889
A Tribute to Persia, Persian Glass (1972) illustrated, p. 11, no. 10; BIB# 65782
Sasanian Silver: Late Antique and Early Mediavel Arts of Luxury from Iran (1967) p. 153, #77; BIB# 21324