IRAN, OR POSSIBLY SYRIA OR EGYPT, 10TH CENTURY

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A WHEEL-CUT COBALT-BLUE GLASS BOTTLE
IRAN, OR POSSIBLY SYRIA OR EGYPT, 10TH CENTURY
With rounded body and flaring tubular mouth on short foot, the body cut with a band of inverted heart-motifs between bands of hatching, the neck with a band of cut facets below a band of star-motifs, repaired breaks, slight losses
6 5/8in. (16.9cm.) high

Provenance

The Madina Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost

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Lot Essay

This very finely cut but unfortunately incomplete bottle is of a rare shape as well as colour. Also unusual are the pronounced star-motifs cut into the neck in a band of decoration. As with many wheel-cut vessels it is difficult to be certain whether it comes from Iran or Fatimid Egypt or Syria. The cutting and colour are similar to those of a bottle reportedly from Gurgan (S. Carboni: Glass of the Sultans, New York, 2001, no.95, pp.190-1), but the form itself with a conical neck, and the roundness of the thick foot, are closer to a small bottle in the al-Sabah Collection attributed perhaps to Greater Syria (S. Carboni: Glass from Islamic Lands, London, 2001, no.2.19, p.119).

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