LATE 9TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.

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AN ISLAMIC GREEN GLASS BOWL WITH BIRD DECORATION
LATE 9TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
The circular bowl with short straight sides and shallow concave base, the sides decorated with impressed frieze of eleven birds facing left, with dotted eyes in relief, iridescence; and an Islamic light green glass strap handle surmounted by the figure of a lion, with tail curled back to join the neck, a circular thumb rest below, golden iridescence, 11th-12th Century A.D.
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) diam. and 2¼ in. (5.8 cm.) high respectively (2)

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Animals, 1981, I, nos. 43 and 44 respectively; and Noah's Ark, 1997, no. 53 (item one).

Item two: Islamic glassmakers from this period would shape blobs of applied glass into tiny beasts which guarded the contents of bottles and drinking vessels.

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