11-01-2016, 07:04 PM
Those are most definitely gryffins.
The en face designs are not common in Scytho-Siberian stuff (as you said), while they're quite common in Greek art styles (the Gorgon, which Scythians adopted sometimes) and in China - iirc there's a wooden tiger piece from Pazyryk that looks very Chinese.
The way the eyes are sculpted and shaped on your piece also makes me think of Chinese equivalents.
The en face designs are not common in Scytho-Siberian stuff (as you said), while they're quite common in Greek art styles (the Gorgon, which Scythians adopted sometimes) and in China - iirc there's a wooden tiger piece from Pazyryk that looks very Chinese.
The way the eyes are sculpted and shaped on your piece also makes me think of Chinese equivalents.
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