Late Achaemenid bowl
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 1997
- Art Fund grant
- £25,000 (Total: £75,000)
- Vendor
- Trustees of Amschel Rothschild (c/o Christie's)
Shallow circular bowl with alternating hammered deep lobes and shallow petals and a central circle
Provenance
Found in Mazanderan Province, northern Iran; sold at Sotheby's in 1964
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