Islamic Glass Perfume Sprinkler - LO.922 Origin: Eastern Mediterranean Circa: 700
AD
to 900
AD Dimensions:4.25" (10.8cm) high Collection: Islamic Art Medium: Glass
Pale green glass bottle of globular body with
raised foot with scalloped splayed base and thin
cylindrical neck leading to a flower-like mouth.
Applied trails of the same colour and undulating
bands of glass at the neck. The glass translucent
and featuring extensive weathering.
The zigzag trailing in evidence here originated in
the late Roman period in the Eastern
Mediterranean regions and links its with other
glass objects produced in the preceding six or
seven centuries. Trailed motifs such as these
diffused from the Levant into Islamic Central Asia
during the Seljuk period. The Iranian
glassworkers that absorbed the technique
innovatively reworked the designs by
exaggerating the abstraction of the trailing as
can be seen in the flamboyant motifs of our
bottle.