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LOT 0846
Bactrian Bowl with Animal Decoration
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
7 1/2 in. (805 grams, 19 cm wide).
With cylindrical body and lug handles, reserved stylised images on each side comprising two deer facing a palm tree.
Provenance
French collection, 1990s-early 2000s.
Mediterranean archaeology, Asia, Prehistory & Curiosities Sale, Vermot & Associés, Paris, 18 July 2020, lot 329.
From an important Paris gallery, France.
Ex private Parisian collection.
Literature
Cf. Dani, A.H. & Masson, V.M., History of civilizations of central Asia, the dawn of civilization: earliest times to 700 B.C., Paris, 1992, fig.1, p.392.
Footnotes
The motif of deer facing a palm tree appear on the ceramics from Harappa. The motif of the deer and sacred tree was widespread throughout the Oxus Valley, as well as in the ancient cultures of Bactria and Margiana.
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LOT 0846
Bactrian Bowl with Animal Decoration
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
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