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Primary Description:
Vase. Colorless with yellow (honey-colored) tint and with many small and large, often spike-like bubbles and few large blowing-spirals; slight wear, interior slightly dull; free blown, gilded and enameled, applied handles. Vase: Pear-shaped body with concave base having very rough pontil mark, applied ring-base with airtrap, cylindrical neck with wide flaring top, rim with airtrap folded outwards; a pair of snake-like wavy handles with one large loop applied to shoulder and neck. Decoration from bottom to top; golden fish with red outlines, an Arabic inscription - gold with blue filling "in relief" - repeating "the Wise" together with two medallions in gold with blue dots showing arabesques, on the shoulder arabesques in gold with blue dots and two medallions on each side showing arabesques in gold and floral motifs in green, blue, red, yellow and white "in relief", around the neck arabesques in gold with multicolored dots "in relief" and with two medallions (coat-of-arms) showing a golden rosette with six leaves on a red background "in relief", this frieze being bordered by two narrow bands with arabesques and blue dots, below rim another frieze with fish. The handles join the shoulder at pointed golden medallions or "Norman shields".
Exhibitions (1)

Glass of the Sultans
Venue(s)
Benaki Museum
Corning Museum of Glass
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publications (45)
New Light on Old Glass: Recent Research on Byzantine Mosaics and Glass (2013)
illustrated, pp. 330-331, pl. 4;
BIB# 136397
Historia del Vidrio: desarrollo formal, technologico y cientifico (2012)
illustrated, Fig. 60, p. 75;
BIB# 139172
Through Glass Objects and Poems (Atraves Do Vidro: Objetos E Poemas) (2006)
illustrated, p. 39;
BIB# 106729
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 61;
BIB# 68214
Glass in the Islamic World (2001)
illustrated, Cover;
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 37;
BIB# 63967
The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from the Corning Museum of Glass (1990-01-19)
illustrated, p. 63 (bottom);
BIB# AI23824
The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from the Corning Museum (1990-01)
illustrated, p. 24 (top right);
BIB# AI24626
Masterpieces of Glass and American Decorative Arts in New York City (1990-01)
illustrated, p. 20;
The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from the Corning Museum, a self-guided tour for children ages 6-10 and their parents (1990)
illustrated, #32;
BIB# 34085
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990)
illustrated, pp. 80-81, pl. 32;
BIB# 33819
A Short History of Glass (1990 edition) (1990)
illustrated, opposite title page; p. 43, #36; p. 45;
BIB# 33211
Book of Glass (1986)
p. 34;
Islamic Art in the United States: The Corning Museum of Glass (1985)
illustrated, p. 70, ill. p. 69;
Masterpieces from the Corning Museum of Glass: 24 Ready-to-Mail Full-Color Postcards (1984)
illustrated, cover, p. 2 (bottom right);
BIB# 34354
'81 Nihon no garasu ten : ima garasu ga kataro to shiteiru mono wa = Glass '81 in Japan (1981)
illustrated
BIB# 32754
Le Nouveau Musee du verre a Corning (1980)
pp. 52-59, ill. p. 59, #13;
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History from The Corning Museum of Glass (1980)
pp. 80-81, pl. 32;
BIB# 20953
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1974) (1974)
illustrated, p. 34, #35;
BIB# 28793
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1965) (1965)
illustrated, p. 34, #35;
BIB# 27582
The Corning Glass Center (1958)
illustrated, p. 13 (top);
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1958) (1958)
illustrated, p. 34, #28;
BIB# 27746
Das Glas und die Jahrtausende (1954)
#89, pl. 35;
Mittelalterliche Glaser und Steinschnittarbeiten aus dem Nahen Osten, vol. 2 (1930)
pl. 179, #8;
BIB# 28511
Mittelalterliche Gläser und Steinschnittarbeiten aus dem Nahen Osten (1929-1930)
p. 404, #8; p. 261
v. 1: pp. 261-404, #8; v.2: pl. 179, #8;
BIB# 28511