Dish, with musicians and a vine hung with ripe grapes; Sasanian, 7thC-8thC, Mazandaran (=Tabaristan) province, North Iran, gilded silver.
Sasanian Dish, Mazandaran province, North Iran 7thC-8thC. |
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Dish, with foot-rim. Made of gilded silver and decorated on the interior with relief decoration of a ruler in Sasanian costume reclining on a wheeled couch, surrounded by attendants, musicians and items essential for an outdoor banquet: a vine hung with ripe grapes, a water-bottle made from the skin of a whole animal, wine jugs in a cooler and a pot suspended over a fire.