Lot 270
A free-blown glass Wine-Bottle (5)
29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £334.60 inc. premium
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Isfahan, Qumm or Shiraz, Persia, 18th/ 19th Century
green, small everted mouth on a long gently flaring neck decorated with a spiral trail to the lower part, flattened bulbous body with pushed-in kick; and four glass dishes or possibly small crown window panes, 18th/ 19th Century, three in light olive-green and one in bubbly turquoise glass, with upright walls and almost flat bottoms thickening in the centre with large pontils 15.4, 15.3, 14 and 13.6 cm. diam. ((5))
Isfahan, Qumm or Shiraz, Persia, 18th/ 19th Century
green, small everted mouth on a long gently flaring neck decorated with a spiral trail to the lower part, flattened bulbous body with pushed-in kick; and four glass dishes or possibly small crown window panes, 18th/ 19th Century, three in light olive-green and one in bubbly turquoise glass, with upright walls and almost flat bottoms thickening in the centre with large pontils 15.4, 15.3, 14 and 13.6 cm. diam. ((5))
Footnotes
Large quantities of wine containers of varying capacities were produced in Iranian glasshouses during the 18th and 19th centuries. For an example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art cf. Stefano Carboni and David Whitehouse, Glass of the Sultans, exhibition catalogue (New Haven and London 2001), p. 278-9, fig. 107 and for examples in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, cf. Stefano Carboni, Glass from Islamic Lands (London 2001), pp. 372-3, cat. 102a-c.