Some of the most beautiful exampls of Iranian glssworks (4th to 19th century AD) from the collection at New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Encyclopaedia Iranica: Glass blowing was invented in the Syro-Palestinian region during the Parthian period in the mid-first century B.C.E. and quickly spread from there to neighboring regions. Production of glass was much more widely spread within the Sasanian empire; it also became in both shapes and types of decoration independent from Parthian prototypes >>>

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