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LOT 1310
Seljuk Bronze Statuette of a Horse
CIRCA 11TH-12TH CENTURY B.C.
2 in. (115 grams, 52 mm).
Modelled in the round with stocky body, front and back legs united with an integral pedestal. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx P.A. collection, Hertfordshire, UK, 1990s.
LiteratureCf. Ettinghausen, R., ‘The Flowering of Seljuk Art’ in The Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, 1970, volume 3, pp.113-131, for similar style in a feline incense burner and on a ceramic figurine of an armed horseman.
FootnotesSeljuk metalworkers were inspired by their surrounding environment and fauna, but mostly forms of animals (like lion, tiger, deer, rabbit, peafowl, duck, horse, hawk) that seem to be following the Sasanid tradition.
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