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LOT 1255
Bactrian Lidded Silver Vessel with Leopards
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 3/8 in. (50 grams, 87 mm high).
Sheet-silver pyxis with tapering sides and slightly curved base, everted rim; discoid lid with lip, impressed cruciform design with zigzags in the quadrants; sidewall with impressed frieze of leopards in profile, ring-and-dot and chased detailing to fur. [No Reserve]
Provenance
UK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a London gentleman.
Literature
See von Bothmer, (ed.), Glories of the Past, Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, for discussion.
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