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LOT 0292

Elamite Bronze Parade Macehead with Animals

2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

7 1/2 in. (10 1/4 in.) (519 grams, 19 cm (647 grams total, 26 cm including stand)).

Tubular sleeve with ribbed collars to the mouth and shank; scooped upper end narrowing to the top; three vertical lines of conical spikes with interstitial crawling lions, rams' heads at the top, ibex heads below the lower collar; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Provenance

Kuizenga collection, the Netherlands, acquired Hamburg 22 December 1995.
Private collection, London, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Moorey, P.R.S., Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Adam Collection, Oxford, 1974, p.49, no.18; and Mahboubian, H., Art of Ancient Iran. Copper and Bronze, London, 1997, p.169, no.177.

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LOT 0292

Elamite Bronze Parade Macehead with Animals

Estimate £1,000 - 1,400€1,160 - 1,620 (for guidance only)$1,350 - 1,890 (for guidance only)

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