Near Eastern Bronze


	established 1942

SCYTHIAN BRONZE HORSE TRAPPINGS

Each cast in the form of a griffin with a down-curving beak, their crests forming loops along the tops and backs of their heads, with quadruped bodies, the hoofed legs folded under, perforated vertically twice along the bodies for attachment, the back sides concave
For the form see a horse trapping of a bird of prey, no. 86 in Piotrovsky, Scythian Art.

Private Collection, acquired in the 1970s.

Mid-5th Century BC

Larger: 4 in. (10.2 cm.) long

Art of the Ancient World, 2008, no. 217
CNB01
$12,500

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