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Object Details
- Description
- Plate with low ring foot. Exterior plain. Weight: 441.4 gm.
- Interior, engraved and spot-gilded design of royal figure on horseback, moving to right, hunting with bow and arrow two ibexes; one ibex to right of horse, the other below horse. Stylized landscape element below horse.
- The hunter's headdress consists of a mural crown with front crescent, topped by a globe, an arrangement that does not correspond to any crowns depicted on Sasanian coins. A similar headdress, but lacking the front crescent, is shown on the coins of several kings of the late Sasanian period: Peroz (459-484), Kavad (488-531), Khosro I (531-579), Hormizd (279-590), Bahram VI (590-591), Khosro II (591-628), and Kavad II (628).
- Collection
- Arthur M. Sackler Collection
- Exhibition History
- Art in Iran and Europe in the 17th Century: Exchange and Reception (September 28, 2013 to January 12, 2014)
- Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran (February 4, 2012 - ongoing)
- The Shahnama: 1000 Years of the Persian Book of Kings (October 23, 2010 to April 17, 2011)
- Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires (May 9, 1993 to January 28, 2007)
- Nomads and Nobility: Art from the Ancient Near East (September 28, 1987 to November 1, 1992)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Arthur M. Sackler
- 600-800
- Period
- Sasanian period
- Accession Number
- S1987.109
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Silver and gold
- Dimensions
- H x Diam (overall): 4.2 x 20.7 cm (1 5/8 x 8 1/8 in)
- Origin
- Iran
- On View
- Sackler Gallery 21: Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- gilding
- chasing
- hammering
- metal
- silver
- landscape
- hunting
- ibex
- horse
- Sasanian period (ca. 224 - 651)
- Iran
- Ancient Near Eastern Art
- equestrian
- Record ID
- fsg_S1987.109
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye33f653a7d-f2c1-48b6-be89-6dc449776588
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