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A Sasanian Stucco Plaque, circa 6th Century A.D.
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description
- A Sasanian Stucco Plaque
- 18 1/4 by 16 1/4 in. 46.3 by 41.3 cm.
molded in high relief with two confronted leaping ibexes feeding from a tree-like vine of grapes.
Provenance
Habib Anavian, New York, 1960s
Catalogue Note
Related examples are in the Louvre (Pope, Persian Art, pl. 177E, E. Porada, The Art of Ancient Iran, New York, 1965, p. 215, pl. 58, and Les Perses sassanides, p. 55, no. 8), the Staatliche Museen, Berlin (K. Erdman, Die Kunst Irans zur Zeit der Sasaniden, Berlin, 1943, no. 38), as well as in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Boston. Also see Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, December 1st, 1972, nos. 305-307, and J. Kröger, Sasanidischer Stuckdekor, Mainz am Rhein, pp. 207-208, pl. 99.