IRAN, 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A SAFAVID GREEN GLASS BOTTLE
Iran, 17th or early 18th century
The mould blown bottle with fluted body rising to tubular neck above a knop, outturned mouth, intact
9 3/8in (23.8cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A Safavid glass bottle of a very similar green colour and with similar slight striations in the tall neck is in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (Loukonine, Vladimir and Ivanov, Anatoli: L'Art Persan, Bournemouth, 1995, no.258, p.249). The moulded melon-shaped body is well attested in pottery of the 17th century, but not previously in glass.

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