EGYPT OR SYRIA, 10TH CENTURY

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A FATIMID CLEAR GLASS BOTTLE
EGYPT OR SYRIA, 10TH CENTURY
With spherical body and tall tubular neck on short foot, the body plain save for a simple band cut around the shoulder, the neck wheel-cut with four bands of faceting, sometimes on the diagonal, intact, extensive polychrome iridescence
7¾in. (19.7cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The cutting on the neck of this bottle is very closely related to that of a bottle sold in these Rooms 11 April 2000, lot 287. Both relate to that on the neck of a bottle excavated from the wreck of the Serçe Limani (Jenkins, Marilyn: "Islamic Glass, a Brief History", Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol.XLIV, no.2, Fall 1986, no.30), thus supporting a Fatimid attribution.

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