CIRCA 4TH-5TH CENTURY A.D.

细节

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

来源

Dr. Elie Borowski

出版

Ghirshman, Parthes et Sassanides, fig. 242, 256, 258, 348.
Arts de l'ancien Iran, no. 250.

展览

Arts de l'ancien Iran, Museé Borély, Marseilles, 1975.

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拍品专文

Rock crystal vessels of this size from the period are exceedingly rare. For a rock crystal Sassanian bowl in a gold mount now in the Louvre see no. 29, p. 85 in Harper, The Royal Hunter, Art of the Sasanian Empire.