2nd-1st century BC. A bulbous ceramic spouted vessel with elaborate frieze of six fish-tailed elephants between rosettes to the shoulder; a frieze of double rosettes above surmounted by a frieze of stars, with another circumferential band of stars below; the middle of the body densely covered in conjoined pairs of winged gods and goddesses with hoofs, depicted half naked holding fruit on a field of mythical stars, flowers, and rosettes; with a frieze of stars below, and a wide band of five flowers with foliage underneath; supplied with a custom-made display stand. See The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 2002.266, for similar, and accession number 2004.553.2, for ivory plaque with similar iconography.1 kg total, 23cm including stand (9"). Property of a West London gentleman; from a private collection since 1989.