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A FATIMID PALE YELLOW LARGE BLOWN GLASS BOTTLE
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A FATIMID PALE YELLOW LARGE BLOWN GLASS BOTTLE

EGYPT OR SYRIA, CIRCA 10TH CENTURY

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A FATIMID PALE YELLOW LARGE BLOWN GLASS BOTTLE
EGYPT OR SYRIA, CIRCA 10TH CENTURY
With widening cylindrical body rounding to a shallow sloping shoulder with narrow neck and pronounced rounded mouth, pointil mark on foot, undecorated, light golden iridescence in a couple of places, intact, excellent surface
7¾in. (19.5cm.) high
來源
The Madina Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost
注意事項
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

拍品專文

This very well preserved large bottle has a most unusually shaped mouth. A very comparable mouth on a bottle made of similar pale yellow glass was sold in these Rooms 1 May 2001, lot 309. The body of that bottle was moulded with panels of triangular and scrolling motifs. A jar with similarly shaped body but with much wider neck was found at Fustat in a site which can be fairly precisely dated to the 7th/8th century. A smaller bottle with mouth which approaches the present thick rounded form is now in the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo (Schätze der Kalifen, exhibition catalogue, Milan and Vienna, 1998, no.176, pp.195 and 197).