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A Luristan Bronze Finial, circa 8th Century B.C.

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 EUR

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Description

in the form of two confronted and conjoined rampant felines with gaping jaws

Height: 6 in.; Haut. 15.3 cm.

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Collection X... Première vacation. Bronzes du Louristan et d'Amlash, 3e-1er millénaire av. J.C., May 22nd, 1980, lot 292, illus.

Galerie Kevorkian, Paris

Daniel Hourdé Collection, Paris, acquired from the above at Tefaf Maastricht in 2022.

The number 1432 is painted in white along the side of one of the lower legs.


For related examples see A. Godard, "Bronzes du Luristan", in Ars Asiatica, XVII, Paris, 1931, Pl. LIII, no 198, P. R. S. Moorey, Catalogue of the Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1971, nos. 166-171 and P. Amiet, Les Antiquités du Luristan - Collection David Weill, Paris, 1976, no 208.