A RARE BRONZE ENGRAVED CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
6TH CENTURY
A RARE BRONZE ENGRAVED CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER 6TH CENTURY The center of the flat cover finely engraved with a central flowerhead surrounded by five roundels enclosing musicians and dancers of Central Asian type separated by basket-like motifs containing foliate sprays, encircled by a bow-string border and an outer band of animals fleeing amidst foliate scroll within a rope-twist border, with further foliate scroll on the canted shoulder and around the sides below a narrow band of peacock feathers, the sides of the box with similar rope-twist, animal and feather bands, with a bow-string circle on the flat base, with mottled grey and pale green patina 7 13/16 in. (20 cm.) diam.
A RARE BRONZE ENGRAVED CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
6TH CENTURY
A RARE BRONZE ENGRAVED CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER 6TH CENTURY The center of the flat cover finely engraved with a central flowerhead surrounded by five roundels enclosing musicians and dancers of Central Asian type separated by basket-like motifs containing foliate sprays, encircled by a bow-string border and an outer band of animals fleeing amidst foliate scroll within a rope-twist border, with further foliate scroll on the canted shoulder and around the sides below a narrow band of peacock feathers, the sides of the box with similar rope-twist, animal and feather bands, with a bow-string circle on the flat base, with mottled grey and pale green patina 7 13/16 in. (20 cm.) diam.
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