Document Type : Research Paper
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Member of the scientific faculty of Iran's Cultural Heritage and Tourism Research Institute
Abstract
Cooperation of skilled Sassanid painters and metal workers led to creation of masterpieces in the collections and museums and around the world. Especially, the silver plates that decorated by augmentation, hammering, engraving, gilding, and other technics. From one hand, noble tastes led to creation of the artifacts, whereas forgers take the opportunity to produce forgeries similar to original artifacts. Therefore, it should be noted that high rate of discoveries from smugglers, the objects must be study and authenticate deeper. Present paper studies a silver plate with a ram design that produced through Sassanid period and discovered of smugglers in Mazandaran province. The plate registered in the historical list of Sari Collection, however, the author hesitated the authentication of the same object. Through study, the author recognized the original plate, which led to present paper as the authentication and comparison of both. Present paper points to the authentication methods of the Sassanid silver plate, while introduce motifs that reflect a powerful government with royal requisites and religious rites, however, they express skillfulness of a master who created the most appropriate composition using subjectivity and limitation of correlation. Consequently, authentication of the plate denied and listed as a forgery in the list.
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