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LOT 1396
Elamite Silver Beaker with Leopards
CIRCA 2500-1500 B.C.
3 3/8 in. (47 grams, 87 mm).
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; some restoration.
ProvenanceUK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
with TimeLine Auctions, 5 September 2024, no.1255.
Private collection, London, UK.
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; Mahboubian, H., Elam – Art and Civilization of Ancient Iran, London, 2004, for discussion.
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