Detail View: The AMICA Library: Mango-shaped flask
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.1993.18
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
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Creator Nationality:
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Asian; Indian Sub-Continent; Indian
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Creator Dates/Places:
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India
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Attributed to India
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Title:
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Mango-shaped flask
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Title Type:
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Object name
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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mid-17th century
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Creation Start Date:
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1634
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Creation End Date:
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1666
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Materials and Techniques:
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Rock crystal set with gold, enamel, rubies, and emeralds
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Classification Term:
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Crystal
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Dimensions:
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H. 2 1/2 in. (6.5 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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1993.18
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Credit Line:
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Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1993
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Rights:
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Context:
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In spite of its modest size, this flask in the shape of a mango, adorned with gold, gems, and enameling, eloquently demonstrates the artistic standards and tastes of seventeenth-century Mughal India. Likely to have been created during the reign of Shah Jahan, the emperor who built the famous Taj Mahal, the flask expresses the seventeenth-century Mughal love of natural forms and their high quality of workmanship. The finely balanced, elegantly drawn, and relatively spacious network of scrolling vines in gold, inset with gemstones, recalls the Mughal debt to Safavid Iran, where similar networks of scrolling vines with palmettes, blossoms, and leaves were in vogue in the sixteenth century. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.is1993.18.R.tif
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