IRAN OR EGYPT, 11TH CENTURY

Details

A WHEEL-CUT EMERALD-GREEN GLASS BOTTLE
IRAN OR EGYPT, 11TH CENTURY
With spherical body and tall tubular neck on short foot, the body incised with a band of large circles within hatched panels, a band of hatching above, the neck with three bands of geometric meander designs, hole in foot, otherwise intact, surface heavily iridescent
9in. (22.7cm.) high

Provenance

The Madina Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost

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Lot Essay

The form of this bottle, its execution in deep coloured glass, and its decoration with wheel-cut designs are shared by a bottle in the Corning Museum of Glass (S. Carboni: Glass of the Sultans, New York, 2001, no.95, pp.190-1). That bottle is more similar in colour and quality of cutting to the previous lot; the green of the present example is very unusual.

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