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Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,500
6TH-7TH CENTURY A.D. AND EARLIER
7 1/2 in. (612 grams, 19 cm high).
With waisted neck, mouth with vertical wall, underside of foot with hatched lozenge; earlier strap handle from mouth to shoulder formed as a leaping lioness with forepaws hooked over the rim.
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, 1980s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12711-235451.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
LITERATURE:
Cf. The British Museum, museum number 124094, for similar; also see Prudence Oliver Harper, The Royal Hunter: Art of the Sasanian Empire, New York, 1978; Ehsan Yarshater (ed.), The Cambridge History of Iran, vol.3 (part 2), 1983; Exhibition catalogue, Splendeur des Sassanides, Brussels, 1993, p.240, no.89; Exhibition catalogue, Ancient Art from the Shumei Family Collection, New York, 1996, pp.75-7; Joseph N. Newland, Miho Museum: South Wing, 1997, especially pp.110-1, for type.
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