MOSTLY EGYPT, 8TH-11TH CENTURY

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A COLLECTION OF MINIATURE EARLY ISLAMIC GLASS VESSELS
MOSTLY EGYPT, 8TH-11TH CENTURY
Comprising a wide variety of flasks, bottles and shallow dishes, together with a few other forms, made in a variety of different coloured glass, many with pincered decoration, together with a large fragment with polychrome enamelled decoration, mostly intact, a few with iridescence or with damages or repair
largest 3in. (7.8cm.) high (107)

Provenance

Maurice Nahman Collection

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Lot Essay

With this provenance these are likely to have come from Fostat. This is borne out by a comparison with pieces in other collections with the same provenance. A numerb of comparable pieces were in the Kofler Collection and are now in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (Carboni, Stefano: Glass from Islamic Lands, London, 2001, nos.69a and b being just a few of many in the collection). Other comparable examples are in the Benaki Museum (Clairmont, Christoph W.: Benaki Musuem Catalogue of Ancient and Islamic Glass, Athens, 1977, esp.pl.XIV).

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