8th-10th century AD. A mould blown glass vessel with broad shoulder, cylindrical neck, rounded rim and shallow kick-up to base; neck decorated with circumferential frieze of concentric ovoids with central domes; body decorated with band of stylised flower heads; label on base reads 'Mahboubian Galley G028'. See Whitehouse, D., Sassanian and Post-Sassanian Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 2005, for discussion. 81 grams, 76mm (3"). Property of a London gentleman; formerly with Mahboubian Gallery, London, UK; acquired before 1972.