A GROUP OF TEN LAPIS LAZULI MEDICIN VESSELS
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A GROUP OF TEN MINIATURE LAPIS LAZULI MEDICIN VESSELS
Presumably Greco-Bactrian, 1st century BC. Of various shapes and sizes, cut out of massive stone, with a smooth surface and no decoration. The stone of fine quality with dark blue speckles.
Provenance: The collection of The Zelnik Istvan Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. Istvan Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe.
Condition: Very good condition, traces of age and wear, the stone with natural fissures, some of which may have developed into small hairline cracks over time.
Weight: from 138.6 g to 14.7 g
Dimensions: Diameter 5.8 cm (largest vessel), 2.9 cm, (smallest vessel)
Presumably Greco-Bactrian, 1st century BC. Of various shapes and sizes, cut out of massive stone, with a smooth surface and no decoration. The stone of fine quality with dark blue speckles.
Provenance: The collection of The Zelnik Istvan Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. Istvan Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe.
Condition: Very good condition, traces of age and wear, the stone with natural fissures, some of which may have developed into small hairline cracks over time.
Weight: from 138.6 g to 14.7 g
Dimensions: Diameter 5.8 cm (largest vessel), 2.9 cm, (smallest vessel)
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A GROUP OF TEN LAPIS LAZULI MEDICIN VESSELS
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