Lot 37
A glass Perfume Bottle Syria, 7th-9th Century
2 April 2009, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£800 - £1,200
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Syria, 7th-9th Century
Syria, 7th-9th Century
free-blown in greenish-colourless glass, the funnel mouth with a rounded rim and hollow flange on an elongated ovoid body tapering to a knob-like base, the upper part decorated with two thick vertical pincered trails in contrasting bluish-green glass, while the four similar trails in alternating bluish-green and colourless glass on the lower body also form feet on which teh vessel stands
9.2 cm. high
9.2 cm. high