Bowl with cut roundels, 5th–6th century
ExecutionUnknown
Decolourized glass, blown, cut.
(H x Ø)7,5 x 10,9 cm
Status
not on displayAccessionAcquisition 1966
Inventory numberP 1966-4
Contact
sammlung@kunstpalast.de
About the workThis type of bowl embodies the essence of glass art during the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages. In the Iranian Sasanian Empire, the achievements of Roman glass technology were combined with a thousand-year-old tradition of glass cutting. Sasanian glass soon spread far beyond the Middle East. Surviving examples have been found in Chinese and Japanese tombs and treasure houses from the fifth to the eighth centuries, as well as in church treasuries, such as those in the cathedrals of Halberstadt and Venice.