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LOT 0321
Sassanian Deep Blue Cut-Glass Bowl
CENTRAL ASIA, 6TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.
5 1/8 in. (9 1/4 x 9 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.) (387 grams, 13 cm (1.37 kg total, 23.5 x 23.5 x 13 cm including box)).
Drum-shaped with two rows of discoid plaques to the sidewall and another to the underside.
Provenancewith Kojiro Ishiguro (1916-1992), Tokyo, in 1978-1979.
Private collection, Japan.
Ex Gallery Mari by February 2004.
Accompanied by a copy of a previous illustrated catalogue pages.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12429-225439.
Cf. Whitehouse, D., Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 2005, item 50, for type.
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