Luristan Bronze Mount with Facing Animal Heads

Standing female deity (Astarte?), wearing a long cloak and two broad necklaces; arms bent and hands placed on the chest; mounted on a custom-made stand; repaired. 260 grams total, 23 cm high including stand



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Each a tapering shank with graduated bulbs to the middle. 14.9 grams total, 39-42 mm



UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.

With frieze depicting a worshipper and a goddess both facing an enthroned king holding a cup in one hand, sun-disc and crescent above; the king wearing a cap and tiered robe, the throne raised on a dais and covered with a fringed cloth; the worshipper youthful with hands clasped before his chest, wearing a floor-length garment over his shoulder; the goddess wearing a tiered headdress and flounced floor-length robe, with hands raised in salutation; two pairs of smaller figures, one with a toothed weapon; column of cuneiform text reading 'ᵈNin-subur, sukkal an-na' ('Ninshubur, the approved vizier', or 'heavenly vizier'); supplied with a museum-quality impression. 17 grams, 26 mm



From an important London, UK, collection, 1980-1990s. Accompanied by a previous two page illustrated catalogue report. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12249-222296.