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- Title
A Reverse-Painted Glass "Paten" at The Cloisters: A Case of "Islam Christianized"?
- Authors
Krueger, Ingeborg
- Abstract
A large, shallow dish of colorless glass in The Cloisters of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is decorated with a reverse-painted image that includes the arms of the city of Freising and its bishopric, as well as the date "1(4)98." It was therefore identified as the glass that is mentioned in an entry of the "Domcustos" accounts of the Freising cathedral. According to that entry, the decoration was added to a glass that had been kept within the treasury, probably one of "duo vitra magna" listed in an inventory of 1456. These large glasses would have been exotic pieces brought to Freising from some Islamic country because examples of similar large traylike dishes are found only among Islamic glass, whereas that form is completely absent within the range of medieval European vessel glass. While it was still undecorated, the shallow dish had been used for the liturgical washing of feet on Maundy Thursday. It was "Christianized" by the reversepainted biblical scene when it was assigned the new function of holding the Hosts on Maundy Thursday.
- Subjects
FREISING (Germany); GLASS underpainting; GLASS painting &; staining; ISLAMIC glassware; GLASSWARE; BIBLE in art; CHRISTIAN-Islam relations; METROPOLITAN Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Glass Studies, 2014, Vol 56, p117
- ISSN
0075-4250
- Publication type
Article