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Bowl with Leaf Calyx Ornament

Date

100 B.C.–A.D. 50

Medium

Silver

Culture

Bactrian

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

Raised from a single sheet of silver, originally gilded. A ten-leaf rosette and nymphaea-like foliage at center. From this calyx emerges a one-row, eighteen-leaf lanceolate and acanthus calyx, without axial symmetry. Rounded leaves in front of the lancet-shaped foliage. A calyx of large, pointed leaves without axial symmetry, with filled floral tendrils and acanthus whose leaf tips bend toward each other in pairs. Between tips of leaves there are blossoms. Between rows of beads, an endless flower scroll above the leaf calyx. Originally there were stone inlays on all blossoms, in the rounded leaves of the small calyx, and in the lobes of the acanthus. All the other parts of the ornament are incised. Undecorated interior.

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