Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 2027. Estimate $300.
Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.
Sold For $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SASANIAN PERSIA. Silver applique. Circa 7th century AD. Diameter 35mm, weight 1.34 gm. A rooster with elaborate curling tail standing right. VF, cleaned. ($300)
The rooster appears in various Sasanian art forms, see P. O. Harper, The Royal Hunter, pg. 65 for a silver jug, and pg. 134 for a textile fragment with the same motif.
