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3/1911 Flask Persia 9th-10th century Clear glass with green overlay. H:15, Diam:7.5 The overlay glass technique, which experienced one of its zeniths under the Romans, lived on during the early Islamic period even though preserved objects are rare. The method employed was slow and doubtless corres­ pondingly expensive. The article was first blown and shaped in clear glass and thereafter dipped in a coloured mass. The motif was marked, and the surrounding superfluous coloured glass was removed on the wheel. The decoration thus came to stand out in relief - and, moreover, in coloured relief—and was a contrast to the far simpler technique in which the motif was “drawn” by grinding or engraving. In the Museum there are about 50 glass items executed in various techniques ranging from Sassanid times up to the 11th or 12th century which for the most part were acquired during the 1960s and 70s. The flask illustrated comes from Persia and perhaps from the Nishapur region, which on account of the remoteness of its locality retained its old artistic traditions for a long time. The transition from the Sassanid to the Islamic style was therefore smooth, but in this case the simple Sassanid facet and medallion reliefs have been replaced by 4 + 2 stylized birds and a palmette decoration re­ miniscent of the stucco-and-wood ornamentation that has been found in Samarra dating from the 9th and 10th centuries. The Samarra style spread rapidly, and judg­ ing by the strictness of the ornamentation and the bell- shaped design of theflask it is reasonable toplace it early in the relatively small group of Islamic overlay glass.

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