Lot 123
123
A HELLENISTIC SILVER-GILT LOTUS BOWL, of hemispherical form with gilded guilloche pattern below the outer rim, and radiating lotus petals, each with gilding on the segments and between the petals, the base in the form of a concentric circle, with chased calyx of six petals alternating with six acanthus leaves, repeated on a larger scale, all within a concentric circle, Graeco-Parthian, 2nd Century B.C.

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A HELLENISTIC SILVER-GILT LOTUS BOWL, of hemispherical form with gilded guilloche pattern below the outer rim, and radiating lotus petals, each with gilding on the segments and between the petals, the base in the form of a concentric circle, with chased calyx of six petals alternating with six acanthus leaves, repeated on a larger scale, all within a concentric circle, Graeco-Parthian, 2nd Century B.C.
4¼in. (10.8cm.) high; 8¾in. (22.3cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. D. V. Bothmer, A Greek and Roman Treasury, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bulletin, 1984, no. 108, for a pyxis with parcel gilt foliate lid from the Bolsena Silver Hoard, and nos. 105-106, for a gilt guilloche below the rim. Also, three Graeco-Parthian silver vessels in the Shelby White and Leon Levy collection, Exhibition catalogue, Glories of the Past, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, nos. 137-139, pp. 190-194; and M. Pfrommer, Catalogue of Silver from the Hellenized East, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 81. Am. 8416

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