A Beautiful Small Islamic Green Glass Bottle c.8th-10thC AD

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A Beautiful Small Islamic Green Glass Bottle c.8th-10thC ADOrigin: Islamic, Possibly Persia Period: 8th 10th century AD Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 700 1000 AD Height: 5 Width: 3 (at widest point) Weight: 99 grams The evocative dark emerald green glass bottle of diminutive proportions having a superb patination and opalescence to the surface; formed with a long tapering neck with a bulbous squat body and slightly inverted base and surviving from the Islamic Golden Age. Considering the considerable age, the

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patination and character with no signs of structural loss – though some minor signs of old worm

one year before these pictures were published

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The carving is all-present with no losses and the ebonisation is in mainly sound order with expected areas of wear in the right places

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In Frame: 27

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