FOUR SMALL EARLY ISLAMIC GLASS OINTMENT FLASKS AND A MISFIRED BOTTLE
Syria or Egypt and Iran, 9th - 12th century

Comprising a clear-glass molar flask, 8cm high; three free-blown bottles with moulded and applied trailed decoration, the two darker ones reminiscent in shape and design of ancient Roman glass bottles, the tallest 7.5cm high; and a misfired light green clear-glass bottle, deformed by heat, with a tall cylindrical and faceted neck and a row of wheel-cut oval designs around the body, 12.5cm high.

Provenance (amphora-like glass bottle with dark trailed decoration): Sotheby's London, 29 April 1992, lot 11 (one of eight).

Provenance (glass bottle with light trailed decoration): Sotheby's London, 19 April 1994, lot 11 (one of eight).

Provenance (remaining): Sotheby's London, 27 April 1995, lot 273 (two of four).