A Persian Bronze Pendant, Southwest Caspian Area, early 1st Millennium B.C.

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Description

A Persian Bronze Pendant, Southwest Caspian Area
Height 3 3/16 in. 8.1 cm.; length 3 11/16 in. 9.4 cm.

in the form of a ram with erect tail, concave body of circular section, and flat triangular head with protruding tongue and deeply recessed circular eyes and nostrils, bosses running along the outside of the front legs, shoulders, and neck.

Provenance

J.J. Klejman, New York, before 1969

Catalogue Note

Cf. Smeets Collection, no. 98 (Sotheby's, November 7th, 1977, no. 44), and Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, November 20th-21st, 1975, no. 56.