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The shape of this basin, both in metal and glass, was popular in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. The surviving examples in glass, however, are only from the Mamluk period and therefore may have been produced in imitation of earlier Ayyubid metal shapes.
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Title: Basin
Date: 14th century
Geography: Attributed to Syria
Medium: Glass; enameled
Dimensions:
H. 6 1/2"
DIam. 11 1/2"
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
Object Number: 91.1.1532
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