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LOT 0027
Minoan Red Jasper Seal Depicting a Lion Attacking a Bull
LATE HELLADIC, CIRCA 1400-1300 B.C. OR LATER
1 in. (7.45 grams, 26 mm).
Of lentoid form with domed reverse, showing a lion attacking a bull from above with its jaws and claws sunken into the bull's hindquarters, the bull shown standing with its head turned towards the lion in the act of trying to pry it off with its long horns; pierced horizontally.
ProvenanceWith Münzen und Medaillen A.G., Basel, prior 1980.
Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12465-228767.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
John H. Betts, Corpus der Minoischen und Mykenischen Siegel, Band X, Die Schweizer Sammlungen, (Berlin 1980) 194, cat.
nr. 219, doubted by the author.
See similar seals in Betts, J.F., Corpus der Minoischen und Mykenischen Siegel, Band X, Die Schweizer Sammlungen, Berlin, 1980, no.218, p.193; Boardman, J., Greek Gems and Finger Rings, Early Bronze Age to Late Classical, London, 1970 (2001), nos.86 [lion attacking a goat also in red jasper], 138, 159 [agate lentoid],169 [lion attacking bull, from Mycenae],172, 182 for Minoan gems with similar scenes; see a lioness attacking a bull, in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, lentoid shape seal (about 1470-1410 B.C.), accession no.23.576.
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LOT 0027
Minoan Red Jasper Seal Depicting a Lion Attacking a Bull
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