Sale 4914
London, South Kensington
|
27 April 2012
Price realised
GBP 2,000
Estimate
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, http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/60005382)
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