Lot 203
  • 203

An important wheel-cut intaglio blue glass bowl, Persia, 10th Century

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

with flaring walls and a slightly everted rim with short foot-ring and depressed base, the glass of a rich cobalt blue tone carved with engraved reciprocal palmettes around the body, each palmette of heart-shaped form with inward scrolled ends and cross hatched oval centres, between two serrated bands comprised of a succession of wheel-cut facets

Condition

In overall fairly good condition, with cracks and associated repair, with restored glass inclusions where needed, intact, as viewed.
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