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Chair Leg

300s CE
ivory
Overall: 43.8 cm (17 1/4 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1975.103.1
Location: not on view
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Description

This ivory carving was made to sheath wooden furniture made in India for trade along the Silk Road, which stretched from Rome to China. Indian ivory-faced furnishings--along with lacquer boxes from China and painted glass from Rome--were found in an extraordinary deposit of luxury goods at a site called Begram. The wood on which the ivory and lacquer were affixed has long disintegrated, and only the small pieces remain.
Chair Leg

Chair Leg

300s CE

Afghanistan, Begram, Kushan period

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