IRAN, CIRCA 7TH CENTURY

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A POST SASSANIAN WHEEL CUT GLASS BOTTLE
IRAN, CIRCA 7TH CENTURY
Of drop form rising to a tubular mouth, on spreading trumpet foot, the body completely covered with an overall honeycomb lattice of wheel-cut concave depressions, a couple of repaired breaks
10¼in. (26cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The form of this bottle derives directly from metalwork (see for example the Tiflis ewer, published by Eva Baer, Metalwork in Medieval Islamic Art, New York, 1973, fig.166, p.192). It is a variant on a known glass form of the later Sassanian period (David Whitehouse, Sassanian and Post-Sassanian Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 2005, no.65, pp.54-56, the note to which lists further examples). In contrast to that form however, the present one has much more of a curve to the sides. It also raises the whole body on a high foot where the more frequently encountered type has no foot, just resting on a larger circular facet.

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