Object Details
- Description
- A small bronze vessel with constricted, fluted neck and slightly flaring, flat rim. Rounded body exhibits a large, but subtle, diamond-facetted pattern.
- Provenance
- From prior to 1973 to 2003
- Cynthia Helms, Washington, DC, acquired prior to 1973 [1]
- From 2003
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, given by Cynthia Helms in 2003
- Notes:
- [1] According to Provenance Remark 1, Ann C. Gunter, September 22, 2003, in the object record.
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran (February 4, 2012 - ongoing)
- Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires (May 9, 1993 to January 28, 2007)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Cynthia Helms
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- ca. 225-650
- Period
- Sasanian period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Cynthia Helms
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 20.3 x 10.2 cm (8 x 4 in)
- Type
- Vessel
