Description:

This flask was found in a burial site near Xi’an in central China but comes from Iran. The burial took place during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) when Xi’an was a large and bustling city at the east end of the Silk Route. Merchants traded glass items like this along the route from Iran. Chinese people at the time placed a high value on these precious imported goods from the west.

Glass, degraded by burial, wheel-cut
Height: 16.5 cm, diameter: 10.0 cm, neck diameter: 2.8 cm

Creator: Unknown

Date: 800-900

Copyright: Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

Object ID:Or1984.11.01