cosmetic dish

grey schist
Gandhara-region, ca. 1st cent.
diam.: 11 cm.

Small round dish, most probably used for cosmetic purposes. Half of the disk is occupied by a winged horse. On the backside a crude incised lotusfower.

Some similar examples are in the former collection of Samuel Eilenberg, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Martin Lerner and Steven Kossak, The Lotus Transcendent, Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection, New York (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 1991, p. 60-66, nrs. 17-26.

ex-coll. Belgium.