Lot 42
42
An Islamic blue glass inkstand or lamp in plaster base, the glass bowl of cylindrical form with straight sides and inward-folded rim, set within a square block of plaster, the sides of which are ornamented with rosettes, bowl repaired -- 3 3/8 x 3¼ x 2½in. (8.7 x 8.3 x 6.3cm.), 9th-10th Century A.D., from South Russia or Northern Persia

Details
An Islamic blue glass inkstand or lamp in plaster base, the glass bowl of cylindrical form with straight sides and inward-folded rim, set within a square block of plaster, the sides of which are ornamented with rosettes, bowl repaired -- 3 3/8 x 3¼ x 2½in. (8.7 x 8.3 x 6.3cm.), 9th-10th Century A.D., from South Russia or Northern Persia
See Colour Plate 1
Provenance
Wolkenberg Collection: sold Christie's, London, 9 July 1991, lot 27.
Exhibited
Ancient Glass, Alfred Wolkenberg Collection, A Loan Exhibition October 1964 - January 1965, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee, no. 117.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Journal of Glass Studies, IV, 1962, p. 142, no. 19.

For a discussion of the type, cf. B. I Stavisky, 9th and 10th Century Inkstands from Samarkand in the Hermitage Collection.

More from Antiquities, Islamic and Oriental Works of Art

View All
View All