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- Title
A Relief-Cut Bowl from Besalú (Girona, Spain).
- Authors
Velasco, Alberto; Whitehouse, David
- Abstract
A glass bowl in the Museu d'Art in Girona, Spain, is decorated with two pairs of relief-cut birds. The bowl, from the church of Sant Vincenç in Besalú, northeastern Catalonia, has been attributed to a workshop in al-Andalus or Iran in the ninth or 10th century. Comparison with some 300 examples of relief-cut glass believed to have been made in Western Asia or Egypt suggests that the bowl was not made in either of those regions. It seems more likely that it originated farther west, perhaps in al-Andalus or the Maghreb. A possible context for its removal to northeastern Spain is provided by the capture and plunder of Córdoba in 1010 (which made portable objects widely available), and the promotion of a new diocese at Besalú by Counts Miró Bonfill and Bernat Tallaferro between 1017 and 1020 (which included donations to churches).
- Subjects
CATALONIA (Spain); GLASS bowls; GLASS containers; ISLAMIC glassware; BOWLS (Tableware) -- Design &; construction; RELIEF (Sculpture); HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Glass Studies, 2012, Vol 54, p119
- ISSN
0075-4250
- Publication type
Article