A GILT AND NIELLO CAST BRONZE PERFUME BOTTLE

PERSIA, CIRCA 12TH CENTURY

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A GILT AND NIELLO CAST BRONZE PERFUME BOTTLE
PERSIA, CIRCA 12TH CENTURY
Of drop shape with small applied wings and feet, the body divided into a heart shape by a ridge along the join between the two cast sides, both sides covered with a scrolling silver leaf design, cylindrical neck and dome shaped lid, greenish encrustation, old repairs
2 5/8in. (6.5cm.)

Lot Essay

A cast perfume bottle of almost idenitical form but undecorated, found at Nishapur and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is published in Allan, J.W.: Nishapur: Metalwork of the Early Islamic Period, New York, 1982, no.86, p.76.

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