Silver bowl with lion, foliage, and a ring of raised dots. Central Asia, late 6th-early 7th c. A.D.
Silver bowl with lion, foliage, and a ring of raised dots. Central Asia, late 6th-early 7th c. A.D. Freer Gallery of Art.From the Freer:Made in Central Asia in the region of Samarkand, this decorated silver bowl is an excellent example of the school of metalwork fashioned in this cosmopolitan area on the Silk Route linking Europe and China. In the seventh and eighth century, this region—known as Sogdia—produced luxury metalwork that drew on artistic styles of Sasanian Iran, to the west, and Tang China, to the east. -- source link
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