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LOT 1252
Western Asiatic Iridescent Green Glass Sprinkler Flask
10TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
3 1/8 in. (91 grams, 80 mm).
With five radiating ribbed flanges to the body, restricted neck, everted flange to the mouth with raised rim. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection formed in Germany in the 1990s.
From a private Belgian collection.
Cf. Whitehouse, D., Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 2010, item 61, for type.
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