Help in identification/age?
Could someone please tell me what this is and what its used for? The metal attached to it has an unusual design, naked fairies. These metal pieces are on all 4 sides. The amethyst coloring seems to be flaking off as well. Pictures are attached. Thank you so much.
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This falls into a general category of likely mideastern glass. Age hard to tell. I have seen similar glass when traveling in the Mideast, and have a modern example that shares some similar characteristics...hope to post a photo when I get a chance. The important similar char. is the elaborate overlay.
The long wand would seem to be some type of applicator or perhaps used for filling a liquid into something?
There are lots of examples of indeterminate "Persian" glass which no one in the US bottle community (at least no one that I have spoken with in the past 30+ years) seems to know anything about.
On a somewhat related note, I do recall reading in ANTIQUE BOTTLE AND GLASS COLLECTOR (I believe it was a comment by publisher Jim Hagenbuch) that he remembers seeing a large quantity of so-called Persian saddle flasks at a flea market back in the 1970s. It is possible that someone imported them (and possibly other bottles like them) at that time.
HTH