A CARVED GREY SCHIST SPHERICAL RELIQUARY
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A CARVED GREY SCHIST SPHERICAL RELIQUARY

GANDHARA, CIRCA 1ST-3RD CENTURY

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A CARVED GREY SCHIST SPHERICAL RELIQUARY
GANDHARA, CIRCA 1ST-3RD CENTURY
Carved with rounded medallions, each with an eight-pointed star, with pierced lid, encrusted, otherwise intact
2 5/8in. (6.7cm.) diam.
Provenance
UK private collection, 1970s.

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An almost identical reliquary is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1987. 142.47a, b, https://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/60005382)

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