This bowl featuring what is believed to be one of the first known depictions of a dog on a lead is being offered in an auction of antiquities on July 3 at Bonhams New Bond Street in London.
It is painted on one of three panels of the large Persian pottery jar, dating to the late 3rd to late 2nd century BC, and shows a hunter with a bow and arrow holding a curly-tailed dog herding goats on a mountainside.