A FATIMID WHEEL CUT GLASS BOTTLE

EGYPT OR SYRIA, 10TH CENTURY

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A FATIMID WHEEL CUT GLASS BOTTLE
EGYPT OR SYRIA, 10TH CENTURY
Of cylindrical form with rounded shoulder and tall tubular neck on short foot, the body faceted with a wheel-cut arcade, the shoulder cut with inverted tear-drop motifs, the neck with rectangular facets and cut with a zig-zag design, white iridescence, repaired clean breaks
7½in. (19.1cm.) high

拍品專文

A bottle with a very similarly cut neck was excavated from the Serçe Linani shipwreck (Jenkins, Marylin: 'Islamic Glass, a Brief History', Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol.XLIV, no.2, Fall 1996, no.30). It is also interesting to note a mould-blown clear glass bottle which uses exactly the same combination of arcading and drop-shaped motifs which was purchased in Cairo through Friedrich Sarre in 1912 (Seipel, Wilfried: Schätze der Kalifen, Islamische Kunst der Fatimidenzeit, exhibition catalogue, Vienna, 1998, no.188, pp.201-2). Both these factors would support a Fatimid attribution.