Lot 280
A group of glass Gaming Pieces Persia, 10th/ 12th Century (22)
29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,553.50 inc. premium
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Persia, 10th/ 12th Century
Persia, 10th/ 12th Century
greenish colourless and manganese-purple, cylindrical with rounded shoulder surmounted by a globular finial, two finials missing
each approx 2.8 cm. high(22)
each approx 2.8 cm. high(22)
Footnotes
Chess and board games were popular in the Near East in the Medieval period. A number of sets and single pieces are known in materials ranging from rock crystal to bone, ivory and pottery. A millefiori glass piece was excavated at Nishapur (Jens Kroger, Nishapur. Glass of the Early Islamic Period, New York, 1995, fig. 162), and there are three further glass pieces of similar form in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Marilyn Jenkins, Islamic Glass, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, fall 1986, no. 65).