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A SASSANIAN ROCK CRYSTAL ELLIPTICAL BOWL
circa 4th-5th century a.d.
The exterior of the bowl cut with a figure of a dancing woman, wearing a tightly-fitted diaphanous costume which splays above her ankles, the ends of a shawl draped over her fore-arms, with U-shaped folds at her thighs, her torso frontal, wearing a beaded necklace, her hair bound in a cloth with fluttering ties to the left and right, an attribute in her raised right hand, standing on a short groundline, framed by an elliptical groove, the outer border a band of guilloche with stars interspersed
61/8 in. (15.6 cm) long
Provenance
Dr. Elie Borowski
Literature
Ghirshman, Parthes et Sassanides, fig. 242, 256, 258, 348.
Arts de l'ancien Iran, no. 250.
Exhibited
Arts de l'ancien Iran, Museé Borély, Marseilles, 1975.
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