A Fine and Delicate Glass Goblet with Blue Trails, Persia, 10th-11th Century

of clear glass, with narrow stem and straight flaring sides, turquoise trailed threads encircling the body in two bands and a zig-zag, with two applied loop handles each with a pendant glass ring

In good condition, minor surface irridescence, wear and abrasion, as viewed.
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The present example relates to a group of goblets with narrow stems with a small disc foot and an applied disc base to the cup. The few extant examples date from 10th/11th-century Persia and are recognised by, amongst other things, their trailed decoration that features simple threads and curling or waving motifs both of which are exhibited here (see Carboni 2001, cat. 41, p.172 for an example of a goblet from this group). A near-identical glass goblet featuring trailed threads and loop handles with ring pendants is in the L.A Mayer Memorial Museum of Art, Jerusalem (no. G71), see Hasson, R., Early Islamic Glass, Jerusalem, 1979, p.9, no.11.