Mold-Blown Light Olive Green Perfume Sprinkler, 900 CE - 1200 CE
Glass
10.25
GF.0085
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...
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...
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...