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LOT 0219
Western Asiatic Bronze Standing Idol
EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
7 1/2 in. (310 grams total, 19 cm including stand).
Modelled in the round as a columnar figure with curved stub arms and pointed headdress; mounted on a custom-made display stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
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.
Literature
See Chausidis, N., Luristan Standards, iconography semiotics and purpose, Skopje, 2022, fig. H20, for similar statuettes.
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