Catalogue of rare and beautiful Greek, Egyptian, Byzantine and other glass, Persian and other pottery, old enamels, Sumptuous textiles and many other ancient objects of extraordinary interest : to be sold at unrestricted public sale by order of Dikran Khan Kelekian (1903)
American Art Association · New York : American Art Association · leaf 133
inches. 688 — Vase. Baluster-shaped. White frit, glaze originally green, now almost completely covered with a fine pearly iridescence. The mouth is obviously but neatly repaired. "Babylonian." Height, 6 inches. 689 — Fragment of a Plaque. The plaque was probably worked a jour and bore two subjects,… … contest between the hero Rustem and the Sepeed Deeve, or White Demon, is sometimes figured, but in a style totally distinct from this. But much earlier Chaldean reliefs are known of symbolic combats between good and evil spirits and these appear to have been hung in doorways as a warning to the…
Kelekian, Dikran G., 1868-1951
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