32-1 ROSE WATER SPRINKLER (PC-032)
Region From: Likely Shiraz, Persia.
Estimated Date of Production: Mid to late 1600s.
Dimensions: 284 mm in height, 117 mm in circumference.
Weight: 334 grams.
Colour: Green aqua.
Technique: Blowpipe pontilled, freeblown, ribbed, curiously fashioned lip, 19 clockwise turns of glass threading on neck.
Description: Highly unique and tooled lip – perhaps to aid pouring? Glass has many inclusions.
Condition: Perfect glass stringing, bits of internal haze, near mint.
Provenance: Purchased July 2012, part of the Fairbourne Collection.
Literature: none.
Related Works outside this collection: one footed decanter in a collection in Australia, six in a collection in India.