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- Title
Orientalische Goldemailgläser als Reliquienbehälter.
- Authors
Krueger, Ingeborg
- Abstract
Islamic glasses with gilded and enameled decoration form a small category of exotic vessels that were used as containers for relics. Only nine such glasses are known to date: six beakers, two bottles, and one vase. Only one small beaker within a monstrance in Munster has retained its relics, two beakers are lost and merely known from colored drawings, while the other such glasses are empty. By investigating in detail every example and its history, several new facts can be stated and errors eliminated. As the only common denominator of these very heterogenous glasses is their decoration in gold and enamel, it seems that they were mainly appreciated as precious objects and because of their provenance from the Holy Land. When such a glass came into a church treasury (probably by donation), it could be deemed worthy to house holy relics.
- Publication
Journal of Glass Studies, 2021, Vol 63, p109
- ISSN
0075-4250
- Publication type
Article