Small Millefiori Bowl

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 451

The millefiori technique was rediscovered in the eighth or ninth century in Mesopotamia and was probably used in the production of objects for the ‘Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad or Samarra. A number of surviving bowls and tiles suggest that it was used both for domestic furnishings and interior decoration. The small size of this bowl suggests that this shallow object was meant to be embossed in a plaster wall.

Small Millefiori Bowl, Glass, blue and opaque white mosaic; fused and slumped, probably ground and polished, applied disk foot

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Small Millefiori Bowl, Glass, blue and opaque white mosaic; fused and slumped, probably ground and polished, applied disk foot
Small Millefiori Bowl, Glass, blue and opaque white mosaic; fused and slumped, probably ground and polished, applied disk foot
Small Millefiori Bowl, Glass, blue and opaque white mosaic; fused and slumped, probably ground and polished, applied disk foot

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