拍品 318
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A RARE FRAGMENTARY POYCHROME LUSTRE COBALT BLUE GLASS EWER with elongated drop-shaped body on spreading foot rising to the slightly tapering tubular neck with elongated horizontal trough spout and loop handle with raised ball thumbpiece, originally fully decorated with geometric motifs in polychrome lustre, now with only fractions visible, 8th/9th century (extensively irridised, irridescence flaking in a number of places, areas of restoration)

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A RARE FRAGMENTARY POYCHROME LUSTRE COBALT BLUE GLASS EWER with elongated drop-shaped body on spreading foot rising to the slightly tapering tubular neck with elongated horizontal trough spout and loop handle with raised ball thumbpiece, originally fully decorated with geometric motifs in polychrome lustre, now with only fractions visible, 8th/9th century (extensively irridised, irridescence flaking in a number of places, areas of restoration)
12¼in. (31.1cm.) high

拍品專文

Glass vessels decorated in polychrome lustre are extremely rare. The present example has unfortunately lost the majority of its surface with the effects of irridisation, leaving many of the original details of the design to the imagination. The form of the present ewer is almost identical to earlier Sassanian versions, as is shown by a glass handled jug in the Teheran Museum dated to the 6th-7th centuries.