Figurative double balsamarium. Islamic, 6th - 8th century A.D. H 9cm. Bluish clear glass. Two tubular vessels with circumferential thread support and a small handle, on a stylized beast of burden (camel?). Cf. glasses of antiquity. Oppenländer Collection (1974) no. 749; S. Carboni, Glass from Islamic Lands (2000) no. 4. Thick coating, tail of the animal and small part of the thread support broken. Provenance: ex Gorny & Mosch 300, 2023, lot 323; ex Spanish private collection M.M.; ex Gorny & Mosch 128, 2003, lot 22.
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