id: 123703 accession number: 1944.235 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.235 updated: 2022-04-07 09:00:33.939000 Ceremonial Spittoon or Basin, late 1800s. Europe. Glass with enameled and gilded decoration; diameter: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.235 title: Ceremonial Spittoon or Basin title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: late 1800s creation date earliest: 1875 creation date latest: 1899 current location: 116 Islamic creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Europe technique: glass with enameled and gilded decoration department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Glass find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Islamic Art opening date: 1944-11-03T04:00:00 Islamic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1944-February 2, 1945). title: Art: The International Language opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00 Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). title: Glass of the Sultans opening date: 2001-05-24T00:00:00 Glass of the Sultans. The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY (May 24-September 3, 2001); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 2, 2001-January 13, 2002); Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece (February 20-May 15, 2002). title: Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation) opening date: 2021-05-21T04:00:00 Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 21, 2021-May 31, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Arts of Islam. Hayward Gallery, London, UK (April 8-July 4, 1976). * Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks. The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (May 14-July 19, 1981); The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (August 15-October 11, 1981); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (November 7, 1981-January 3, 1982); Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (February 6-April 4, 1982); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (April 24-June 20, 1982); Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (January 8, 1983-March 6, 1983); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (April 2-May 29, 1983). --- PROVENANCE (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1944 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1944- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The intense enamel colors form striking star and leaf patterns. digital description: wall description: This basin, 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Part II. Annual Report Issue for the Year 1944." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 32, no. 6 (1945): 103-30. page number: Mentioned: p. 107 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141221 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 716 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n130 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 210 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n234 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 210 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n234 Jones, Dalu and George Michell. The Arts of Islam: Hayward Gallery, 8 April-4 July 1976. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976. page number: cat. no. 143, p. 146 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 266 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n286 Atıl, Esin. Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 51, p. 132 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.235/1944.235_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.235/1944.235_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.235/1944.235_full.tif