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Property of a Distinguished American Private Collector (Lots 9-50)
Lot 22*,R

A Luristan bronze double harness-ring

23 June – 7 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, New Bond Street

Sold for £256 inc. premium

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A Luristan bronze double harness-ring

Circa 10th-7th Century B.C.
Surmounted by stylised ibex and a mountain goat 8.8cm high, 10.8cm wide

Footnotes

Provenance:
French art market, before 1996.
Anonymous sale; Boisgirard, Paris, 2 October 1996, lot 61.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York and London, acquired before 2016.
Private American collection, acquired from the above, 22 April 2016.

For another double harness-ring surmounted by mountain goats, see P.R.S. Moorey, Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Adam Collection, London 1974, p.91, no.56A.

Published:
T. Pang, Treasures of the Eurasian Steppes: Animal Art from 800BC to 200AD, New York, 1998, p.42, no.37.

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