ANCIENT NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST
PERSIAN SILVER BEAKER WITH WINGED LIONS
PERSIAN SILVER BEAKER WITH WINGED LIONS
ANCIENT PERSIA / LURISTAN
Ancient collection belonging to Habib Sabet
Object certified authentic and sold with an expert certificate. Satisfied or your money back.
Object :
Nº 1749
Material :
Metalwork, Silver
Type Object :
Metalwork, Objects of the everyday life, Vases, urns and vessels
Dimensions :
Height: 12.6 cm (4.9″) - Diam: 8.5 cm (3.3″)
Provenance :
ACHEMENIDS (6 th to 4 th cent. BC)
A medium size silver vessel beautifully decorated with guilloche consisting mainly in two figurative registers. The upper frieze depicts three advancing winged lions with rosettes between. The detail of the feathers, paws and mouth are all finely incised. The lower frieze depicts three birds interposed with rosettes. Both ends are covered with decorative interlacing friezes and another thin decorative frieze separates the two figurative scenes. After liberating themselves from the Medes in 5550 BC, Acheamenids founded their clan. It was founded by Cyrus II the Great who reigned over the immense Persian Empire consisting of Babylonia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Palestine and Lebanon and stretched south into Saudi Arabia and east to Afghanistan. The representation of a hybrid monster looking as a ‘winged lion’ recalls of the glazed bricks from Darius the Great’s palace (522-486 B.C.) in Susa and today exhibited at the Louvre. In Babylonia, the winged lions with human heads were viewed as protective spirits. Although there are still questions surrounding the significance of these fantastical creatures, it is believed that they evoked old Elamite cult worship and is thus a part of the heritage of the Persian Empire.
€ 44000 - £ 37859.8 - $ 47850 - C$ 64838.4
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