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LOT 0249
Urartian Bronze Recumbent Bull
8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
4 1/2 in. (485 grams, 11.4 cm).
Hollow-formed figure of a bull resting with its legs folded beneath its body, head turned; on a stepped rectangular base.
Provenance
Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), thence by descent.
Ex Galerie Dominique Thirion, Brussels, Belgium.
Private collection of Mr K.A.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12411-225769.
Literature
Cf. D. von Bothmer (ed.), Glories of the Past. Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection, New York, 1990, pp. 52-3, no. 37.
For similar bull-head protomes on cauldrons from Urartu, circa 8th-7th Century B.C., cf. R. Merhav, Urartu - A Metalworking Center in the First Millennium BCE pp. 238-41; Cf. Cleveland Museum of Art, online collections, no. 1942.204.
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LOT 0249
Urartian Bronze Recumbent Bull
Estimate £3,500 - 4,500€4,060 - 5,220 (for guidance only)$4,730 - 6,080 (for guidance only)
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