Artwork
Jar
DepartmentIslamic Art
Date7th-8th century A.D.
MediumGlass
Dimensionsheight: 3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm)
rim diameter: 13/16 in. (2 cm)
rim diameter: 13/16 in. (2 cm)
Credit LineSan Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins
Object number96.1.192
GeographyPlace madeSyria
DescriptionFree-blown flask of pale yellow-green glass. Spherical body with narrow, short, cylindrical, lobed neck and flattened rim. Large disc foot; tool marks visible. Applied decoration on body: alternating circles, in wavy lines, and triangles, four of each, at mid-body, with seven small circles on upper body. Tool marks visible on all elements.Provenancewith Frances Semaan Wilkins (1916-1999) and Frederick J. Wilkins (1916-2004), San Antonio, by 1995; Frances and Frederick Wilkins, by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1996Exhibition History“A Bridge from East to West: Near Eastern Art from the Frances and Frederick Wilkins Collection,” San Antonio Museum of Art, Dec. 9, 1995-Feb. 25, 1996Not on view
Collections
8th century A.D.
7th-8th century A.D.
6th-8th century A.D.
7th-8th century
3rd century B.C.
7th-8th century A.D.
3rd century B.C.
10th - 11th century A.D.
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