Western Asiatic Sassanian Button Glass Bowl

6TH-7TH CENTURY AD

5 1/2" (779 grams, 14.2cm).

A substantial cut glass bowl with ring of seven large disc studs below the rim and seven smaller beneath, disc base.

Provenance

From an important London collection; previously in a private UK collection, formed 1983; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.163492-10078.

Literature

Cf. similar item in the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, accession number 61.1.11.

CONDITION

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LOT 0247

Western Asiatic Sassanian Button Glass Bowl

Sold for (Inc. bp): £17,780

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