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A NISHAPUR RELIEF CUT-GLASS BOTTLE, PERSIA, 9TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3006294

The glass relief-cut bottle with a layer of polychrome iridescence, the conical form neck with everted rim and rounded lip, a band of flower heads under the rim, a band of high relief Kufic across the body.
Height: 13 cm.

This complex and refined glass bottle is an ambitious work of early relief-cut glass. It employs mould-blown and cutting techniques to produce a richly decorated object combining resonances of a classical Sasanian aesthetic, with a pronouncement of its Islamic context in its Arabic inscription. Several blown bottles of this form testify to its popularity in glass of this period (Goldstein 2005, pp.110-111, no.130, and 124-127, nos.152-155).

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Germany