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AN EARLY PARTHIAN PAINTED TERRACOTTA HORSE AND RIDER RHYTON
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AN EARLY PARTHIAN PAINTED TERRACOTTA HORSE AND RIDER RHYTON

3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.

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AN EARLY PARTHIAN PAINTED TERRACOTTA HORSE AND RIDER RHYTON
3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.
The ovoid body surmounted by rider with legs astride, his arms forward clasping rim of vessel's cylindrical mouth, the rider wears rounded cap, with large staring eyes, the horse with flattened mane and large forelock, a small short nozzle between the forelegs, decorated with red painted lines of pendant triangles and cross motifs, repaired with some restoration
10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Exhibition catalogue, Das Tier in der Kunst Irans, Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, 1972, no. 60.

A Thermoluminescence Analysis Report from Oxford Authentication Ltd. (no. N202d72) accompanies this lot.

Cf. T. S. Kawami, Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1992, p. 225, no. 159 for a horse vessel from the same period with similar painted decoration.

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