Sprinkler

Free blown, with a round body rising to a slightly tapering, tubular cut neck with two snakelike handles applied on opposite ends of the neck’s base, this elegantly proportioned sprinkler (known as a qumqum) is decorated entirely on its surface with an arcaded pattern. Made of marvered glass – a technique of glass working that involves tooling white trails of glass into a dark, often opaque-like matrix - this type of production was particularly popular in medieval Syria, and can be found on other small glass objects from the period, including kohl bottles and bowls This sprinkler's white trails are tooled into a distinctive arcade pattern and set against translucent purple glass made from manganese. Perfume or rosewater sprinklers of this form became popular in the Syrian region in the 7th century AH/13th century CE, with Raqqa and Adana (near the south Anatolian coast) known as two glass centres during this time.