18th C. Hand-blown Emerald Green Glass Unguentarium-esque Phial Korean ginger jar Wear and repair to box

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and especially the head--suggestive of many animals at once but none in literal form

as are the gridded lines

and both with a satisfying sense of substantialness and presence

though I have seen it on a few other masks of this type and find the effect very beautiful

18th C. Hand-blown Emerald Green Glass Unguentarium-esque Phial Korean ginger jar Wear and repair to boxI don't buy much glass, and when I do it is almost always from a dealer I love in New Hampshire, who knows his glass and likes early glass, as I do. He dated this piece to the 18th century, which I trust and which a little comparative research certainly seems to bear out, though I'm not sure its place of origin. For me its all about the color, a very rich emerald green, and the ungeuentarium type form (long neck, bulbous bottom, splayed lip; one of