id: 123992 accession number: 1944.488 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.488 updated: 2023-04-01 11:07:49.642000 Bottle, c. 1900. Europe. Glass with enameled and gilded decoration; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.488 title: Bottle title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1900 creation date earliest: 1875 creation date latest: 1910 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: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: The inscription translates: "Glory to our lord, the sultan, the king, the victorious, the protector of the world and the religion, Muhammed." translation: remark: --- 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: For Modern America from the Ancient Near East opening date: 1948-02-24T05:00:00 For Modern America from the Ancient Near East. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-March 21, 1948). 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 --- PROVENANCE (Hagop Kevorkian [1872–1962], 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: digital description: wall description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Islamic Art: Selected Examples from the Loan Exhibition of Islamic Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. page number: Reproduced: p. 38 url: https://archive.org/details/IslamicArtCMA/page/n48 "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 “Front Matter.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 32, no. 10, 1945. page number: Reproduced: cover url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141240 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. 714 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 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 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.488/1944.488_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.488/1944.488_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.488/1944.488_full.tif