Beaker

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Beaker

Culture: Islamic

Date: 13th century

Medium: Glass with red enamel and gilding

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

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Beaker

Beaker