IRAN....Gold cup,achaemenid period 4th-3rd centuries BC
Size:16.1cm Siberian collection of Peter_I
This ornament, perhaps a strap end or costume decoration, is shaped like a heart on its side, the two lobes at left and a vertical projection at the narrow end on the right. Jupiter rides on the back of an eagle with outstretched wings, a thunderbolt in its claws. The figures are in low and high... Dimensions:
Height x width: 4.6 x 4.4 cm (1 13/16 x 1 3/4 in.) Near Eastern#persia, 1st century B.C. or 1st century A.D
Figurine of a Deer Gold; technique of lost wax. H. 4.5 cm 5th - 4th century BC #achaemnied Siberian collection of Peter_I, Eastern Iran
Iran....seal of king Shahpur II sasanid empire(4_6 AD) . ..Seals were often used in wars to write confidential letters.
Lion Hunting Cup 1100-1000 BC Northwestern Iran, Amlash, 12th-11th century BC Silver, Overall: 14 x 9.3 cm (5 1/2 x 3 11/16 in.) DESCRIPTION
The nomadic gold- and silversmiths of Marlik and Amlash were the first masters of precious metalwork in Iran. Their successors were the bronze workers of Luristan and the silversmiths of the Achaemenian and Sasanian empires.
Amphora with horizontal grooves and handles in the shape of ibex. Silver. Hamadan, Iran. Amphora with horizontal grooves and handles in the shape of ibex. Silver. Hamadan, Iran.
(Achaemenid art 5_4BC)
Dish: King Hormizd II or Hormizd III Hunting Lions
Iran, Sasanian, 5th-6th Century
Silver gilt. Overall: 4.6 x 20.8 cm (1 13/16 x 8 3/16 in.) DESCRIPTION Cleveland museum of art
Lion hunting was a traditional royal sport in many Near Eastern cultures; in art it was sometimes symbolic of a historic conquest. Here, details of the king's and the horse's equipment are in the style of the 5th-century Hormizd III. The crown, however, resembles that of Hormizd II (AD 303-309), so this plate may be commemorative.
IRAN....Golden Plaque Ziwiyeh, Saqqez, Kurdistan (Iron Age III 8th - 7 BC)
mannaeans civilization
National Museum of Iran, Tehran
Silver and gold phiale with Persian king/hero
DATELate sixth or early fifth century BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
Mihomuseum.
The shallow bowl has an offset rim, and an extremely shallow omphalos with a centering mark on the underside. The bowl itself is silver, the gold decoration was made separately and applied. The ten tear-shaped lobes are hollow, slotted into grooves on the wall of the vessel, the lip around the outer edge of the groove folded and hammered down over a flange around the lobe (the same method is used for Özgen and Öztürk 1996, nos. 34, 36 and 37). Alternating with the lobes are ten plaques of a Persian male figure shown walking left, with one foot on each of a pair of addorsed eagle heads which surmount a ring. The figure is bearded and wears a crown. He holds before him with both hands a long spear, and he carries on his back a bow and quiver. The stance and attributes are commonly seen on Persian seals. Whether such figures are to be identified as the Persian king or a hero is a question which has yet to be resolved. .Height 0.036 m, diameter at rim 0.153 m, diameter of body 0.13 m, weight 245.9 g.
Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings
Period: Middle Elamite
Date: ca. 1500–1100 B.C.
Geography: Southwestern Iran
Culture: Elamite
Medium: Bronze, gold foil over bitumen
Dimensions: H. 16.5 cm, W. 22.1 cm
Classification: Metalwork
Meropolitan museum
VERY SILVER ACHEMENIDE CISTA
Material and technique: embossed and chiselled silver foil
Cylindrical container with a newly everted rim, smooth; below the figurative register is limited at the top by a guilloche between two false-string motifs and at the bottom still by a guilloche with a single string. The main decoration presents three pairs of winged, facing bulls whose heads merge, every two, into a single head which thus constitutes one of the sockets of the vase. Each of the three heads is made in the round, jutting out, internally empty as can be verified from inside the situla. Among the pairs of bulls a sacred tree of remarkable plasticity with a high trunk from which elongate triangular leaves, marked by ribs; at the top other leaves widen into a fan-shaped element. Particularly accurate is the engraving of the details in the figures of the bulls, with deeply marked muscle bands almost like a "wave" and the plumage of the wings, with three orders, curved at the top, opposed to the curly mane. The slightly convex bottom is decorated with a radial pod from a central circle that takes on the appearance of a large thirty-two-petal rosette
Production: Achaemenid, Northern Iran
State of preservation: intact, except for small unsoldered areas
Dimensions: alt. 10.5 cm, diam. cm 17.2; g 696
Dating: X-VIII century B.C
ESTIMATE € 60,000 / 70,000