Honeycomb Vessel. 9th-10th century A.D. A green glass bottle with squat piriform body and tapering cylindrical neck, applied trail to the neck base, honeycomb decoration over the body, pontil to base. Cf. Al-Hassan, A. Y., Science and Technology in Islam: Technology and Applied Sciences, UNESCO, 2001. 100 grams, 15.7 cm high (6 1/8 in.) Fernand Adda (d.1965) collection, formed in the 1920s. Collection of Mrs Petra Schamelman, Breitenbach, Germany. Private collection of a Kensington collector. Property of a London gentleman. Glass makers created wares for mosques, houses, and palaces, as well as for the early Islamic scholars who were pioneering the fields of optics and chemistry. Aleppo and Damascus were particular centres of production, with Egypt, Iraq, and Spain also producing incredible glass. These were then traded throughout the known world, including the Viking North Atlantic and China. This glass bottle may have been produced in Iran or Egypt. [No Reserve] [A video of this lot is available to view on Timeline Auctions Website]

Fine condition, neck restored.