Beaker
Probable place made:Syria
Culture: Islamic
Date: 13th century
Dimensions:
h. 3 in. (7.6 cm); max diam.: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number: 86.138.410
Provenance: By purchase, the Stark family, Orange, Texas, between 1927 and 1929; by bequest, the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986
Label Text
The lip and base of this beaker are decorated with intricate floral registers in applied gold leaf and red enamel. (G. D. Scott, III, 2003)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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