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LOT 0250
Amlash Gilt Bronze Standing Ram
CIRCA 1000-600 B.C.
4 in. (52 grams,10.3 cm).
Modelled in the round with pegs beneath the slender legs, body with openwork voids to the flanks and chest, short neck and ribbed horns.
ProvenanceNicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), thence by descent.
Ex Galerie Khnoum, Geneva.
Private collection of Mr K.A.
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