A MOULD-BLOWN GREEN GLASS BOWL Possibly Iran, 10th
A MOULD-BLOWN GREEN GLASS BOWL Possibly Iran, 10th - 11th century Of conical shape, resting on a plain circular base, tooled on the pontil, with slightly splayed rim, the wall decorated in low relief with a continuous pattern of petal-shaped vertical lozenges to the base surmounted by two rows of honeycomb pattern, 15.5cm diam. Provenance: Private UK collection, purchased in Iran in the late 1960s, thence in the family by descent. For a similar example of mold-blown glass, with chevrons in low relief and the same colour and glass composition, please see Stefano Carboni, Glass of the Sultans, New York, 2001, p. 90, fig. 16.
Notes: Islamic & Indian Art
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A MOULD-BLOWN GREEN GLASS BOWL Possibly Iran, 10th - 11th century Of conical shape, resting on a plain circular base, tooled on the pontil, with slightly splayed rim, the wall decorated in low relief with a continuous pattern of petal-shaped vertical lozenges to the base surmounted by two rows of honeycomb pattern, 15.5cm diam. Provenance: Private UK collection, purchased in Iran in the late 1960s, thence in the family by descent. For a similar example of mold-blown glass, with chevrons in low relief and the same colour and glass composition, please see Stefano Carboni, Glass of the Sultans, New York, 2001, p. 90, fig. 16.
Notes: Islamic & Indian Art
