Figure of a Mouse in Deep Blue Glass
Unknown Artist
This glass mouse demonstrates the talent of a Persian glass-blower, who would have taken great pains to carefully produce the anatomical details of this life-sized creature. These types of whimsical forms were admired for their graceful shapes and bright colors, and decoratively displayed within niches of private and public buildings in Tehran, Isfahan, and Shiraz.
Credit: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
19th century
Glass, dark blue; blown, applied decoration
4.5 in
91.1.1556
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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