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LOT 0860
Urartian Pin with Repousse Decorated Disc
7TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.
17 in. (88 grams, 43 cm long).
A bronze dress pin comprising a round-section tapering shank with hipped bulb below the head; discoid head with raised border, repoussé design featuring a central facing mask with lentoid eyes and piriform face, hatched hair and beard; below, two rosettes above the backs of addorsed advancing goats with decorated and segmented bodies; plant motifs before the goats' chests and leaping lions above with gaping mouths flanking the mask of a master of animals with ibexes emerging from the cheeks; mounted on a stand; chipped.
Provenance
Acquired 1970s-1990s.
Ex Rabi Gallery, Mayfair, London, U.K.
From a specialist collection of pottery.
Literature
Cf. Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron. Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, items 310, 312, 313.
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LOT 0860
Urartian Pin with Repousse Decorated Disc
Estimate £700 - 900€810 - 1,040 (for guidance only)$950 - 1,220 (for guidance only)
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