Perfume sprinkler (qumqum)

Perfume sprinkler (qumqum)

Public Domain

CultureSyrian

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Perfume sprinkler (qumqum)

Date13th century

MediumGlass; blown, marvered, applied, tooled and worked on the pontil

Dimensions4 3/8 × 3 × 1 3/8in. (11.1 × 7.6 × 3.5cm)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number70.108

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

113 Islamic Art Gallery

On view

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Department

Art of the Islamic Worlds

Object Type

GLASS

ProvenanceRay Winfield Smith, Houston; purchased by MFAH, 1970.

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