A rare two-colour glass bottle with moulded decoration, probably EGYPT, 9TH-11TH CENTURY

of compressed spherical form with cylindrical neck widening at the mouth, the body with scrolling circular decoration in relief with central raised boss, the bottle made in two parts, the neck and shoulder colourless and the body of light blue glass

Related pieces are in the David Collection, Copenhagen, and in the Benaki Museum (see Clairmont, C., Catalogue of Ancient and Islamic Glass. Benaki Museum, Athens, 1977, pl.XIV, no.231)