Sassanian Green Cut-Glass Cup

6TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.

3 1/2 in. (185 grams, 91 mm).

Translucent with a roughly U-shaped cross-section, graduated decorative wheel-cut facets composed of larger circles to the base, followed by smaller ovals, lozenges and fan-shapes towards the neck.

Provenance

London art market, 1986.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.11887-206403.

Literature

Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 59.34, for similar; cf. Oliver, A. Jr., Ancient Glass, In the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, 1980, p.138, no.235, for similar.

Footnotes

A bowl of this type, produced in Sassanian Persia, is displayed in the Shosoin shrine in Nara, Japan, an evidence of early trade links between Persia and East Asia.

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