A Rare Intact Mould-Blown Glass Bottle with Purple Trails, Persia, 11th Century

of bulbous form, mould-blown with small splayed foot, tall, narrow tapering neck with thistle mouth and flattened rim, the body trailed with a purple band with wave-motifs on the shoulder, moulded with scrolling roundel designs on the lower body, with kick base and pontil scar

Intact without breaks, weathering to the entire outer surface, as viewed
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The type of design used on this particular vessel with the moulded circular motifs and coloured band trailing the body is similar to the design seen on a jug sold at Christie's on 11 April 2000, lot 282, with the same two-coloured glass decorations and wave-form motifs. For similar examples see von Folsach 1990, no.223, p.144; Hassan, R., Early Islamic Glass: L.A. Mayer Memorial Museum of Art, Jerusalem, 1979, pl.35, p.20; Kordmahini, H. A., Glass from the Bazargan Collection, Tehran, 1994, p.164.