Achaemenid bronze wine strainer with lotus flower
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A bronze wine-strainer with incised lotus-flower decoration on the side of the bowl above a handle modelled as a calf or dog’s head. Strainers such as this were used to filter sediments from wine as it was being poured from a jug.
Culture:
Achaemenid, 6th to 4th Century BC
Size:
18 x 10.5 cms, 23 cms tall including stand
Condition:
Losses and small cracks to the bowl, handle terminal lost. Supplied with a custom-made display stand
Provenance:
Ex. estate of Judith Dawidoff Fresco, New York, USA; formerly in the collection of the Oscar-winning documentary maker and producer Robert M. Fresco (1931-2014)
For another wine strainer with the same lotus flower design, excavated in the South West Palace at Nimrud and now in the British Museum, please see:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_-118462