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LOT 1092
Amlash Bronze Pin with Solid Sphere Finial
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
8 in. (8 1/2 in.) (100 grams, 20.5 cm (135 grams total, 21.4 cm including stand)).
Plain shank with a pointed end and a heavy, bulbous terminal atop a ribbed baluster collar; surface worn, the pin repaired at the carinated collar; old collector's label '10635'; mounted on a custom-made display stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market 1970s-1980s.
Private collection, London, UK.
Cf. Moorey, P.R.S., Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1971, pl.46, no.284.
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