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Bactrian Stone Pyxis made of Serpentine / Steatite with Bird-Shaped Lid.
In stock
Price:CHF 1'600
Bactrian, Western Asian
2nd century B.C., 3rd century B.C.
Diam : 4.7 cm
Animal, Vessel
Steatite
Black
Good condition. Traces of red paint.
4086
The Seal in the Shape of a Lion’s Head, modeled in the shape of a stylized leonine protome, was carved from a cream-colored limestone veined with red.
The bowl is perfectly turned. The ceramic is beige, but the surface is entirely covered with colored paint. The element that makes this piece a very special, perhaps unique object, is certainly the statuette of the quadruped.
This core-formed bowl is simply decorated with lathe-cut grooves just below the lip. The base is slightly concave.
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