Culture: Sassanian. Date: 4th - 6th Century A.D. Material: Transparent yellow-brown glass. Condition: Intact. with weathering and iridescence. Provenance: Ex: American private collection. Measurements: 4.9 inches high (12.5 cms). This sizeable flask is pear-shaped rim with horizontal flange abd rounded lip. Entire body is covered with twelve horizontal rows with circular facet-cut, center of base with a larger indented circular cut. An extremely rare type, especially in such form and condition. Cf: no. 65, pp. 54-55, Sassanian and Post- Sassanian Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass; No. 59, pl. 30, p. 54, Fukai; No. 16, p. 182, Recent Important Aquisitions, JGS, v. 10,1968; No. 16, 2000 Jahre persisches Glas 1963; Acc. no. 12/1964, The David Collection, Copenhagen; No. 49, Acc. no. G33, (in the L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art, Jerusalem; WA 1973-4-14,1/135854, The British Museum. Our vast inventory of ancient art includes one of the finest and most comprehensive ancient glass collections ever assembled; it includes nearly every variety of pre-Roman, Roman, and Eastern Mediterranean ancient glass. If you have any specific inquiries, please let us know.iridescence

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