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LOT 0877
Amlash Figure of Fertility
CIRCA 13TH-12TH CENTURY B.C.
3 5/8 in. (4 in.) (47 grams, 91 mm (78 grams total, 10 cm including stand)).
A copper-alloy fertility figure with openwork decoration, loop arms suspending pendants formed as slender figurative horned animals; suspension loop to reverse and cage-style torso; accompanied by a custom-made display stand.
Provenance
Acquired before 1983.mj
Ex London gallery, 1990s.
Literature
See The Virtual Museum of Iran Art, 'bronze openwork statue of a fertility Idol, ca 1000 BC', for a comparable figure.
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