Name: A Sasanian Carnelian Chess Piece, ca. 3rd - 7th century CE
Brand: Leonard Joel
SKU: MA2404
Price: 301000.0 JPY
Availability: InStock

A Sasanian Carnelian Chess Piece, ca. 3rd - 7th century CE

¥301,000

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carved from bright orange carnelian with red spots, in a dome form with a flat base and round cone-shaped body with a gently pointed top.

Medium: Carnelian

Dimensions: Height: 1 inch (2.5 cm)

Condition: Loss to the top and small chips throughout the body, otherwise complete. A rare example.

Provenance: Royall Tyler (1884 - 1953), thence by descent. Royall ("Peter") Tyler was an historian, diplomat, economist, and art connoisseur. He was his the deputy commissioner general of the Economic and Financial Section of the League of Nations in Geneva (1924–1928). In 1923, Royall Tyler and Elisina Tyler acquired (and later restored) the historic garrison-castle, Antigny-le-Château, in Burgundy. Tyler was instrumental in organizing the first international exhibition of Byzantine art in Paris in 1931. He died at the age of sixty-eight on March 2, 1953, in Paris, apparently by suicide.

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