A Fine Intact Mould-Blown Glass Bottle with Blue Trails, Persia, 11th-12th Century

of clear transparent glass, with compressed globular body mould blown with scrolls and swirls, the base with a moulded five-petalled flowerhead, the free-blown upper section decorated at the shoulder and rim with coiled blue glass trails and around the neck with colourless trails, the kick base with pontil scar

In generally good condition, passages of iridescence, surface wear and abrasion associated with age, intact, as viewed
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It is rare to find examples of this kind that survive intact. Similar pieces of related shape incorporating trailed and moulded decoration are published by Carboni in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (Carboni 2001, pp.234-241). The bottle LNS 1 G even has the same moulded flowerhead to the base (ibid. pp.234-5, cat.65).