Miniature Flask

Unknown

9th–11th century

Glass

J. Paul Getty Museum

A small, translucent glass flask with a wide, flat base and a narrow neck. The body of the flask is decorated with a diamond pattern. Miniature flask of pale-green glass with cut decoration in the form of six-pointed stars. There is some weathering and milky iridescence. A fragment of the neck has been reattached. von Saldern, Axel, et al. Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer, exh. cat. (Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1974), p. 260, no. 762.