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A Sassanian Glass Dish, circa 5th Century A.D.

Lot Closed

July 5, 03:03 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A Sassanian Glass Dish

circa 5th Century A.D.

of shallow rounded form, the exterior decorated overall in a honeyco🗹mb pattern with five rings of wheel-cut facets, a larger facet at the base acting as a foot.

Diameter 20.8 cm.

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ac🐈quired by the present owner on the Tehran arꦰt market on September 19th, 1980

For a related example see Christie’s, London,𒐪 December 5th, 2018, n𝄹o. 75.

Faceted glass vessels are characteristic of late Sassanian glass production. They appear to have been coveted luxury objects that were traded along the Silk Road. One example, a bowl, made its way to the tumulus of Japanese emperor Ankan (r. 531-535 A.D.), while others have been found in Turkestan, China and the Korean peninsula (E.M. Stern, Roman, Byzantine and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE-700 CE, The Ernesto Wolf Collection, New York, 2001, p. 338).