AN AUBERGINE AND RED MARVERED GLASS VIAL

EGYPT OR SYRIA, 7TH OR 8TH CENTURY

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AN AUBERGINE AND RED MARVERED GLASS VIAL
EGYPT OR SYRIA, 7TH OR 8TH CENTURY
Of slender cylindrical slightly widening form, with rounded base and circular rimmed top, with bands of red applied and combed glass and wave patterned white marvered glass on surface, with small applied handles, otherwise intact
4in. (10.2cm.) high

Provenance

With UK private collection since 1972

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Lot Essay

An almost identical vial is in the al-Sabah collection in the Kuwait National Museum but is more weathered, illustrated in S. Carboni, Glass from Islamic Lands, London, 2001, cat. 74, p. 295. Our example has applied combed red bands of glass of a more regular width.

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