Details

LOT 0081

Large Graeco-Parthian Ribbed Silver Goblet

GRAECO-PARTHIAN OR GANDHARAN, 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

7 7/8 in. (695 grams, 20 cm high).

With carinated ribbed walls, the upper portion cylindrical, the lower ovoid, with a separately made footed base, with the foot characterised by a central horizontal groove.

Provenance

Robert Haber, New York, 1992.

Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.13036-248075.

Literature

See similar cup in Baratte, F., East and West: A Central Asian Silver Hoard from the Parthian Era, pp.39,59, fig.22; Christie’s, Indian and Southeast Asiatic art, New York, 14 September 2010, New York, 2010, no.39; the cup type is also illustrated on Gandharan reliefs from Buner, see Kurita, I., Gandharan Art II, The World of the Buddha, 2003, p.186, fig.535; this type, in cast copper and in silver, was also found in Taxila, see Marshall, J., Taxila: An Illustrated Account of Archaeological Excavations, vols. II-III, Cambridge, 1951, pl.183, nos. 272-273, in cast copper; pl.187, no.5b, pl.1881 no.5a-5b, in silver; Marshall, J., The Buddist Art of Ghandara, Cambridge, 1960, fig.42, p.34, in silver; for another example, see Tanabe, K., Gandharan Art from the Hirayama Collection, 2013, p.237, fig.VI-63.