Lot 195
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A LATE PARTHIAN OR EARLY SASSANIAN GLAZED POTTERY RHYTON, with moulded decoration, the main body in the form of a female head with elaborate coiffure, her hair dressed in wide braids framing her face and in a wide curve with vertical braiding behind, wearing an ornamented polos headdress, the spout of the vessel terminating in an animal's head, some damage, circa 1st-3rd Century A.D.

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A LATE PARTHIAN OR EARLY SASSANIAN GLAZED POTTERY RHYTON, with moulded decoration, the main body in the form of a female head with elaborate coiffure, her hair dressed in wide braids framing her face and in a wide curve with vertical braiding behind, wearing an ornamented polos headdress, the spout of the vessel terminating in an animal's head, some damage, circa 1st-3rd Century A.D.
9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) long max.

Lot Essay

Cf. P. O. Harper, The Royal Hunter: Art of th Sasanian Empire, Asia House Gallery, 1978, nos. 83-84, pp. 160-164 for similar rhytons and a discussion of glazed ceramics of this period; and R. Ghirshman, Iran: Parthians and Sassanians, 1962, pl. 132(A), p. 111

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