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Lot 165*

Seven Islamic glass vessels
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7 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Seven Islamic glass vessels
Circa 7th-11th Century A.D.
Comprising a blue glass unguentarium, the conical body tapering to a point, a pronounced ribbed collar at the base of the funnel neck, 13cm high; four miniature Islamic glass bottles, 4.3cm-6cm high; a miniature blue beaked flask, 8.7cm high; and a small glass jar with five trail handles and dimpled body, 5.2cm high (7)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Alabstron: Property of Muriel Katz; Sotheby's, New York, 12-13 December 1991, lot 359 (part).
Bottle with facet-cut neck: with Antiquarium Ltd, New York, 14 July 1995.
Spherical bottle: with Antiquarium Ltd, New York, 9 November 1991.
Beaked flask: with Fortuna Fine Arts, New York.
Private collection, USA, formed from the 1980s onwards and acquired from the above.

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