1st millennium B.C.. Sheet-silver pyxis with tapering sides and slightly curved base, everted rim; discoid lid with lip, impressed cruciform design with zigzags in the quadrants; sidewall with impressed frieze of leopards in profile, ring-and-dot and chased detailing to fur. See von Bothmer, (ed.), Glories of the Past, Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, for discussion. 50 grams, 87 mm high (3 3/8 in.).

UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. [No Reserve]