Urartu Vessel with Birds

CIRCA 7TH CENTURY B.C.

6 in. (334 grams, 15 cm wide).

A copper-alloy vessel with tapering walls and everted rim, two raised circumferential ribs framing a frieze of engraved stylised birds standing right beneath arcades.

Provenance

Acquired before 1983.
Ex London gallery, 1990s.

Literature

See Moorey, P.R.S. et al., Ancient Bronzes, Ceramics and Seals, Los Angeles, 1981, for discussion and for broadly comparable vessels.

CONDITION

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LOT 0907