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Lot 42

A Sasanian silver dish with a Royal hunting scene

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4 July 2024, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Sasanian silver dish with a Royal hunting scene
Circa 5th-7th Century A.D.
18cm diam.

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Provenance:
Joseph Brummer (1883–1947) collection, New York (Brummer Archive no. N4551), acquired from M. Manoochehrian, 11 April 1940 (bought as part of lot).
Part Two of the Notable Art Collection Belonging to the Estate of the Late Joseph Brummer; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 11-14 May 1949, lot 119.
Anonymous sale; Binoche et Giquello, Paris, 30 May 2012, lot 51.
Property from a Princely Collection, acquired at the above sale.

Exhibited:
The Iranian Institute, New York, 'The Persian Exhibition', 1940 (exhibition catalogue p. 323).
Cleveland Musuem of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1944.

The deep bowl depicting the Sasanian king on horseback and firing an arrow towards an ibex, another ibex below already shot through by an arrow, with a hunting dog or lion, eagle, and other animals in the field. This typical design presents the king as a 'divine representative, protector of the realm, royal hunter, and overlord of a peaceful and well-ordered state' (P.O. Harper, In Search of a Cultural Identity, Monuments and Artifacts of the Sasanian Near East, 3rd to 7th Century A.D., New York, 2006, p.21).

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