Jug, 10th century
Probably Iran
Transparent yellowish colorless glass, blown, applied (handle), tooled, and wheel-cut; H. 5 3/4 in. (14.5 cm), Max. Diam. 4 in. (10.2 cm), Diam at rim 3 5/8 in. (9.1 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1939 (39.40.101)
Probably Iran
Transparent yellowish colorless glass, blown, applied (handle), tooled, and wheel-cut; H. 5 3/4 in. (14.5 cm), Max. Diam. 4 in. (10.2 cm), Diam at rim 3 5/8 in. (9.1 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1939 (39.40.101)
This object is among the best preserved of the glass vessels unearthed at Nishapur, in northeastern Iran, by a Metropolitan Museum team in the 1930s and 1940s. It was probably of local manufacture and use. Nishapur was a thriving center of arts and crafts as well as a commercial hub along the Silk Road in the early Islamic period until the Mongol invasion in the mid-thirteenth century.
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