Circa 300-600 AD A silver double-skinned oval bowl with flat rim, rounded body and base. For a similar example see the Metropolitan Museum accession number 49.112.1. Akbarzadeh, D. et al. Two Recently Discovered Inscribed Sasanian Silver Bowls Bulletin of the Asia Institute, New Series, Vol. 15 (2001"). Crawford, Vaughn E. 1968. "Reports of the Departments: Ancient Near Eastern Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 27 (2), Ninety-Eighth Annual Report of the Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art for the Fiscal Year 1967-1968 (Oct., 1968), p. 76. Size: L:198mm / W:118mm; 240g Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old London collection formed in the 1990s.