Property from An Important Private Collection To Be Sold With No Reserve...
Property from An Important Private Collection
To Be Sold With No Reserve
A Sasanian-style silver vase, the rounded body rising from the short foot to the waisted neck and short vertical mouth rim, the body worked in repoussé with two large roundels each containing a stylised bird with knotted scarf in a border of overlapping leaf-moitfs, the roundels divided by elegant tendrils enclosing palmettes and terminating in everted split palmettes, a pronounced raised wreath encircling the shoulder, the neck and mouth plain, 564 grams, 29.3cm. high
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Property from An Important Private Collection
To Be Sold With No Reserve
A Sasanian-style silver vase, the rounded body rising from the short foot to the waisted neck and short vertical mouth rim, the body worked in repoussé with two large roundels each containing a stylised bird with knotted scarf in a border of overlapping leaf-moitfs, the roundels divided by elegant tendrils enclosing palmettes and terminating in everted split palmettes, a pronounced raised wreath encircling the shoulder, the neck and mouth plain, 564 grams, 29.3cm. high