Lot 109
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Seventeen Persian Bronze Animals, circa 9th/8th Century B.C.

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

  • Seventeen Persian Bronze Animals
  • Heights 3 1/8 to 1 in. 7.9 to 2.5 cm.
most or all of Luristan and Southwest Caspian area origin, including a Luristan pendant in the form of the addorsed forequarters of two horses, a bull with chevron ornament on the shoulders and haunches, a pair of couchant bulls(?), a bull with recessed eyes, wide horns, short legs, and massive head, several small Luristan horses, and a seated dog with long erect tail. 

Provenance

acquired in New York in the 1970s