A group of early Islamic glass tiles Possibly Mesopotamia, 8th-10th...
Property from a Princely Collection
A group of early Islamic glass tiles
Possibly Mesopotamia, 8th-10th Century
comprising seven square tiles, each of square form, decorated with polychrome millefiori canes fused on a black matrix
each approx. 10.5 x 10.5 x 2.0 cm.(7)
Provenance
Private French collection since the 19th Century.
Property from a Princely Collection, acquired at Gorny & Mosch, Auktion Kunst der Antike, 29 June 2011, lot 520.
Ninth-century millefiori mosaic glass has been excavated from Samarra, where it was used for floor tiles and possibly wall dadoes in the royal palace (Stefano Carboni and David Whitehouse, Glass of the Sultans, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p.18). Some Abbasid chess and game pieces also feature mosaic glass. For an example, see fourteen Abbasid mosaic glass game pieces sold at Christie's, The Saeed Motamed Collection - Part I, 22 April 2013 (Lot 39).
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Property from a Princely Collection
A group of early Islamic glass tiles
Possibly Mesopotamia, 8th-10th Century
comprising seven square tiles, each of square form, decorated with polychrome millefiori canes fused on a black matrix
each approx. 10.5 x 10.5 x 2.0 cm.(7)
Provenance
Private French collection since the 19th Century.
Property from a Princely Collection, acquired at Gorny & Mosch, Auktion Kunst der Antike, 29 June 2011, lot 520.
Ninth-century millefiori mosaic glass has been excavated from Samarra, where it was used for floor tiles and possibly wall dadoes in the royal palace (Stefano Carboni and David Whitehouse, Glass of the Sultans, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p.18). Some Abbasid chess and game pieces also feature mosaic glass. For an example, see fourteen Abbasid mosaic glass game pieces sold at Christie's, The Saeed Motamed Collection - Part I, 22 April 2013 (Lot 39).
