A COLOURED AND A CLEAR BLOWN MUGHAL GLASS ROSEWATER SPRINKLERS
Mughal India, late 18th - early 19th century

Comprising two blown glass bottles, possibly used as rosewater sprinklers, both of typical pyriform shape, resting on a circular splayed foot, the bulbous body rising to a tall tapering neck, one ringed, the other flat, the blue-coloured gadrooned, 18.5cm high, the latter with centripetal ridges, 22cm high.

A collection of eight coloured glass rosewater sprinklers, analogous to ours, was offered at Christie's London, 12 June 2018, lot 41. For further readings on these bulbous bottles, please see Stefano Carboni and David Whitehouse, Glass from Islamic Lands, 2001,cat. 143 and 144, pp. 391 - 93.