Lot 208. An exceptional silk Samite shirt with ducks, Central Asia, Sogdiana, 7th-9th century. Unfolded: Length at shoulders: 67.4cm. Height (from the top of the collar to the bottom edge of fabric): 71cm. Total height (from the top of the collar to the...

Flacon, yellowish and blue-green glass, Syria?, 7th-9th century, H: 10 cm, Inv. no. 49/1979. © The David Collection. This blown flacon was mounted so that it became part of a horse-like animal made of pinched glass. The flacon belongs to a type that is...

An Important Post-Sasanian Silk Shirt, Khurasan or Central Asia, 7th-9th Century. Estimate: £600,000-800,000. Sold for:£713,250/$1,102,684 . Photo: Sotheby's LONDON.- Sotheby’s October auctions of Contemporary Art/Arab & Iranian and Arts of the Islamic...

A glass Perfume Bottle. Syria, 7th-9th Century free-blown in greenish-colourless glass, the funnel mouth with a rounded rim and hollow flange on an elongated ovoid body tapering to a knob-like base, the upper part decorated with two thick vertical pincered...