Early 7th-8th Century Persian Sassanian Rock Crystal Knight Chess Piece Senmurv

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Early 7th-8th Century Persian Sassanian Rock Crystal Knight Chess Piece Senmurv:
$400.00

The present approx early 7th-8th century carved rock crystal chess piece of a knight in the form of a stylized horse with a stylized and primitive senmurv head is an extremely fine and important piece of antiquity and ancient pre-Islamic art. The figure has a nice hexagonal shaped base having its hexagonal design flow towards its top. The chess piece is dated to be an early 7th-8th century Persian Sassanian (Sasanian) Empire one with a numerous similar reference pieces of similarly carved and crafted objects in other materials that depict identical senmurv or Roman hippocamp-like horse heads. There are further some similar in design Persian chess pieces with the same style of carving design of the head, eyes and ears. Some of these Sassanian senmurv objects have appeared at major sale sales, while others are exhibited in top museums around the world (e.g. Met museum). Although similar carving styles and designs have been used since late Roman era (4th-5th Century), there are many others from much earlier Egyptian and Roman times. On a second note, the present chess piece is most likely not a Fatimid or Abbasid carved rock crystal one as the Fatimid and Abbasid ones are much more abstract in design.

Height. 4.1 cm

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