7th-9th century AD. A glass vessel with globular body, trumpet-style neck and applied foot; body decorated with applied discs with dished centres; bubbles of various sizes throughout; label on base reads 'Mahboubian Gallery G026'. See Whitehouse, D., Sassanian and Post-Sassanian Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 2005, for comparable examples and discussion; see A. Oliver Jr. et al., Ancient Glass, Pittsburgh, 1980, p.132, for comparable example and discussion. 86 grams, 82mm (3 1/4"). Property of a London gentleman; formerly with Mahboubian Gallery, London, UK; acquired before 1972.