CIRCA 4TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.

Details

A SASANIAN FACET-CUT GREEN GLASS BOTTLE
CIRCA 4TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Samad Khamenei, Teheran, acquired in June 1970, thence by descent to his daughter Mahnaz Khamenei.
with Hans Fritz Roth and later Frederick Roth, Zurich and Geneva, since 1974.
Private collection, Geneva, acquired in 1996.

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Lot Essay

For a similar facet-cut piriform bottle of similar dimensions and with the same small circular perforation at the centre of the base, now in the collection of the Corning Museum of Glass, cf. acc. no. 62.1.4. in R. J. Charleston, Masterpieces of glass: a World History from the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1990, pp. 64-65, pl. 24.
Please note that Lots of Iranian origin are subject to U.S. trade restrictions which currently prohibit their import into the United States. Similar restrictions may apply in other countries.

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