Islamic mold-blown light olive green
glass
perfume sprinkler with ovoid body, long
cylindrical neck, flaring rim, crimped
collar
around the lower neck and decorated with
a
honey-comb pattern.
Though time has caused the fragrant
perfume
this sprinkler once contained to vanish,
it has
done nothing to lessen the graceful
beauty of
the
vessel itself. Seemingly as delicate and
elusive
as
the scent of night-blooming flowers, it
has
nonetheless survived since the golden
age of
Islam. In its exquisite presence, we are
transported mysteriously back into
another time,
another place...
- (GF.0085)
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