IRAN, CIRCA 9TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.

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AN ISLAMIC GLASS BOTTLE
IRAN, CIRCA 9TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
Colorless, the spherical body on a short pad base, the exterior with wheel-cut oval panels, the tapering faceted neck rising to a flat septagonal rim
5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) high

Provenance

with Anahita Gallery, Santa Fe, 1984.

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Lot Essay

For a bottle of nearly-identical form in the Miho Museum see no. 179 in Goldstein, Ancient Glass. According to Goldstein (p. 208), the type "is believed to have been made during the Islamic period as a continuation of a Sasanian style."

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