Western Asiatic Sassanian Gilt Silver Boat-Shaped Bowl with Birds

3RD-7TH CENTURY AD

9 1/2" (308 grams, 24cm).

A silver oval bowl with gilded band to the upper edge decorated with a running frieze of repousse birds either side of a plant; body sloping to the rounded base.

Provenance

Property of a North London lady; gifted from her father's collection; formerly with a Mayfair gallery, London, UK; previously acquired in the 1980s. Accompanied by X-Ray Fluorescence metal analysis certificate number 00958-2018WB.

Literature

See Carter, M. and Grabar, O. Sasanian Silver: Late Antique and Early Mediaeval Arts Of Luxury From Iran, Michigan, 1967, for discussion.

CONDITION

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LOT 0331

Western Asiatic Sassanian Gilt Silver Boat-Shaped Bowl with Birds

Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,250

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