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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 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.
This vessel, whose shape is as simple as it is elegant, was carved from a beautiful block of granite with black and white mottling.
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