Lot 273
A small glass Bottle with prunts Syria or Persia, 11th/ 12th Century (2)
29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£800 - £1,000
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Syria or Persia, 11th/ 12th Century
Syria or Persia, 11th/ 12th Century
translucent yellowish, flaring neck with thin opaque turquoise trailing around the rim and upper part, tapering body with two thin turquoise trails sandwiching eight small applied prunts in opaque turquoise, dark blue and yellowish glass, 9.3 cm. high; and A bottle with applied bosses, Syria, 7th/ 8th Century, yellowish glass, cylindrical neck with everted mouth, spherical body with three staggered rows of large applied and flattened circular bosses below an applied trail and set on an applied spiral base
7 cm. high(2)
7 cm. high(2)
Footnotes
There is a similar bottle in the Musee du Louvre, Paris (L'Islam dans les collections nationales, Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, 2nd May - 22nd August 1977, no. 35).
For a similar prunted bottle in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, Stefano Carboni, Glass from Islamic Lands, London 2001, 189, cat. 3.24 and for another flask with protruding bosses on a slender body made in imitation of relief-cut vessels, see op. cit., p. 43, cat. 1.9.