far beyond the borders of their empire, reaching Western Europe, Africa, the Near East and the Far East, and played a role in the rise of both the emerging Islamic culture and civilization and of the Byzantine, Asian and European art of the early Middle Ages.
CONDITION Excellent condition; complete with minor repairs; some fragments reglued or resoldered; mercury gilding visible in places; traces of green oxidation inside and outside.
PROVENANCE Formerly, English private collection, acquired in 1968.
BIBLIOGRAPHY GUNTER A.C. and JETT P., Ancient Iranian Metalwork in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992, nos. 13-15. HARPER P.O., The Royal Hunter: Art of the Sasanian Empire, New York, 1978. LOUKONINE V. and IVANOV A., L’art persan, Saint Petersburg, 1995, pp. 90-91, no. 61 (Hermitage).
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