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A POST SASSANIAN MOULD BLOWN PALE GREEN GLASS JUG
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A POST SASSANIAN MOULD BLOWN PALE GREEN GLASS JUG

IRAN, 8TH-9TH CENTURY

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A POST SASSANIAN MOULD BLOWN PALE GREEN GLASS JUG
Iran, 8th-9th century
With elongated spherical body, narrow tubular neck, thick cup-shaped mouth and short spreading foot, the body moulded with a honeycomb lattice of circular depressions, an applied notched trail around the shoulder, the handle in the form of a stylised dragon climbing in two zigzag curves up the side, the face with two pronounced ears, intact, extensive silvery iridescence
9 1/8in. (23.3cm.) high
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Lot Essay

The moulded honeycomb lattice on the body of this jug is frequently encountered in post-Sasanian glass vessels. What is most unusual however is the handle in the form of a stylised dragon. Bronze handles frequently have animal or particularly birds' heads at the terminals, but it is extremely unusual in any medium to have the animal forming the complete handle at this period. That is a feature which did not become popular until the Timurid period, three centuries later.

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