Bactrian Stone Bowl with Snakes

3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

6 3/4 in. (881 grams, 17 cm).

Carved with squat, vertical sidewall and everted rim, frieze of entwined snakes with opposed heads between raised bands around the body.

Provenance

Acquired from a French gallery in 1982; thence by descent.

Literature

Cf. Aruz, J. ed., Art Of The First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, p. 326, for similar.

Footnotes

The stone is likely chlorite.

CONDITION

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