Bottle (c. 1900): Art, History and Details

Bottle (c. 1900) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The bold inscription on the body of the bottle translates: “Glory to our lord, the sultan, the king, the victorious, the protector of the world and the religion, Muhammad.” The sultan referred to here is the Mamluk ruler Muhammad ibn Qala’un (1285–1341), who is also referenced on the nearby mosque lamp. This bottle, as with the mosque lamp CMA 1981.10, is representative of reproductions of Mamluk glass that were prominent in the late 1800s in Europe during a period of resurgence of interest in Islamic art. At this time, collectors and artists revived the techniques of enameling and gilding that are hallmarks of Mamluk glass.

Object facts

• Title: Bottle
• Date: c. 1900
• Culture: Europe
• Type: Glass
• Technique: glass with enameled and gilded decoration
• Collection: Islamic Art
• Department: Islamic Art
• Accession number: 1944.488

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Islamic Art: Selected Examples from the Loan Exhibition of Islamic Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
• "Part II. Annual Report Issue for the Year 1944." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 32, no. 6 (1945): 103-30.
• Hollis, Howard. "Two Examples of Arabic Enameled Glass." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 32, no. 10 (December 1945): 179-181.

View the collection record

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