Western Asiatic Bone Eye Idol

3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C. OR LATER

1 1/4 in. (2 in.) (48.5 grams total, 32 mm high (52 mm wide including stand)).

Carved in the round with two large voided bulbs on a tapering shank; mounted on a stand with old label 'Ex Prof.Karl Lunde, NYC / Ex Arte Primitivo'. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Ex Prof Karl Lunde, New York, U.S.A.
Ex Arte Primitivo.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

CONDITION

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LOT 1238