PERIOD: | Early 19th Century |
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ORIGIN: | Persian Artisan |
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DIMENSIONS: | 17 Cm |
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DESCRIPTION: | The pair-winged Ibex vessel handles with gold inlaid, both Ibex’s originally serving as a finial, depicted and reclining on handles for the silver amphora, its counterpart ‘from Amisos in Pontos’ a comparatively similar single can be seen in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The solid cast animals originally stood with their front hoofs on the lip of a large vessel. All parts are embellished with a thin layer of gold sheet. Source Gertrud Platz-Horster. |
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FOOTNOTE: | Characteristic of Achaemenid art is the animal’s somewhat “human” upper face with its brow almost like a diadem, in addition to which it bears some resemblance for the plasticity of its body and neck to the silver gilt handles in Berlin[3] and the Louvre[4]. The slight twist of the head relates it to the handles of the amphora in Paris[5]. and there is also a rapport between the ears. The incised undulating lines around the thickening of the horns are a schematic way of showing what is usually portrayed with gilded ripples in low relief on the silver gilt handles of amphorae, which are represented similarly but without gilding on the silver ibex handles of the amphora, |
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Provenance: | Directly Acquired from the Artist. |
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CERTIFICATE: | Comes with a certificate from the Art Loss Register |
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