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Cup

9th–10th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 453
This cup is simply decorated with a band of alternating horizontal and vertical lozenges created by relief-cutting. The base was cut using the same technique and contains a protruding disk with two surrounding concentric circles. Similar decorations can be seen on fragments found in Samarra, the Abbasid capital in the ninth century.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Cup
  • Date: 9th–10th century
  • Geography: Attributed to Iran or Iraq
  • Medium: Glass, blue-green; blown, cut
  • Dimensions: H. 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)
    Diam. 4 13/16 in. (12.3 cm)
    W. 6 7/16 in. (16.4 cm)
    Th. at rim 5/32 in. (.4 cm)
  • Classification: Glass
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1969
  • Object Number: 69.223
  • Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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