A GROUP OF THREE LATE SAFAVID GLASS VESSELS Safavid Iran,...
A GROUP OF THREE LATE SAFAVID GLASS VESSELS
Safavid Iran, probably Shiraz, 18th century
Comprising one green glass bottle with a flattened, round body and tubular neck with applied trail decoration; one green glass pear-shaped bottle with an hourglass-shaped neck featuring twisted decoration and a blue glass ewer with a flattened globular body, a long trumpet-shaped neck, and a long spout terminating in a flower-shaped finial.
Largest 22cm high
Carboni points out that these late Safavid glass vessels were largely inspired by Venetian examples, which were extensively traded to the Ottoman and Safavid courts by the end of the Mamluk period and played an important role in the establishment of new glass factories in Shiraz at the end of the 17th century.
Literature:
Carboni, S., Glass from Islamic Lands: The al-Sabah Collection, Thames & Hudson, 2001, p. 371.
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A GROUP OF THREE LATE SAFAVID GLASS VESSELS
Safavid Iran, probably Shiraz, 18th century
Comprising one green glass bottle with a flattened, round body and tubular neck with applied trail decoration; one green glass pear-shaped bottle with an hourglass-shaped neck featuring twisted decoration and a blue glass ewer with a flattened globular body, a long trumpet-shaped neck, and a long spout terminating in a flower-shaped finial.
Largest 22cm high
Carboni points out that these late Safavid glass vessels were largely inspired by Venetian examples, which were extensively traded to the Ottoman and Safavid courts by the end of the Mamluk period and played an important role in the establishment of new glass factories in Shiraz at the end of the 17th century.
Literature:
Carboni, S., Glass from Islamic Lands: The al-Sabah Collection, Thames & Hudson, 2001, p. 371.
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