top of page
  • Logo_Instagram_Black and White.
  • Issuu Logo Schwarz
  • Logo_YouTube_Black and White.
A Double Rhyton with Two Horseman

Gilan/Amlash, 9th - 8th century B.C.

Clay

Height: 23.7 cm

Width: 27.9 cm

Price on Request

Net for Export

The two spherical vessel are joined at the belly and are additionally connected between the necks by a tower-shaped element that rises up from arches on the vessel shoulders. The top has a square recess and the sides have a window. A helmeted rider on the forepart of a horse emerges from the outward-facing side of each of the flaring necks. The horses’ front legs rest on the handles. At the bottom of each vessel, next to the flat, circular base, a small round slightly protruding spout.  Except for the lower part of the vessels, the surface is adorned with bands of stripes, hatching and pendant triangles with and without curled tips. Rims of both vessel mouths, two rider's arms and both horse's mouths slightly worn. Body of vessel intact.

PROVENANCE

Formerly priv. coll. Sam Dubiner, Israel, formed between 1954-1958. With Aaron Gallery, London. Thereafter priv. coll. L. K., Basel, acquired from Cahn Auktionen AG, Auction 8, 9.11.2013, lot 9. On the underside the handwritten inv. nos. "58" and "251".

NOTE

For the type, cf. J. G. Belloni, L'art iranien. Bibliothèque des Arts (Milan 1968) pl. 33 and for the horseman applique pl. 33.

bottom of page