established 1942

LURISTAN BRONZE ELABORATE OPENWORK BELL

The spherical openwork cage with ‘s’-shaped bars, each side centering a hollow conical bezel, on acting as the base. Two handles in the form of ibex protomes each surmounted by a mouflon.

Western Iran, 9th-7th Century BC

W. 7 3/8 in. (18.9 cm.)

Art of the Ancient World, 2002, no. 201
BLJ54
$14,500


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