Hunt Slonem, Amazons-A (2013)

Container carved with a disc shaped base vigorously represented frieze of Greeks fighting Amazons. Some of the Amazons are mounted....

This single detached folio comes from a copy of the Khamsa of Nizami, the 12th century Iranian poet. The Khamsa is a popular and often illustrated text, especially in the 15th and ...

Reddish-brown jasper intaglio with a carving of an anguipede (head of a rooster, torso of a human, serpent legs), head turned to the right, right arm upraised holding a flail, and ...