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Asian Art
Explore image in Two “Molar” Flasks
8th–9th century
Glass; incised
2 in. (5.1 cm)
Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
1955.6.168a-b
Geography:
Iran
Culture:
Iranian
Period:
Abbasid period (750–1258)
Classification:
Containers - Glass
Provenance:
Acquired by by Ada Small Moore (1858–1955), New York; bequest to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1955
Bibliography:
Gustavus A. Eisen, Glass: Its Origin, History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to the Sixteenth Century, 2 vols. (New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927), vol. 2, p. 583, fig. 235.
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