LARGE LURISTAN BRONZE PIN

LARGE LURISTAN BRONZE PIN

Plain cast square shank tapering with heavy open-cast head, consisting of curved ibex head with circular horns coverend with cusps, small rams head at the forepart of its neck, attacked by a lion jumping onto its neck. Ex priv. coll. E.M.F. B., Netherlands, acq. from Jaap Polak, Amsterdam 2005. Exceptional large for its size.
Dim. 11 x 30 cm. Mounted, green and brown patina, partly cleaned
8th – 7th cent. BC
€ 7.500
Cf. P.R.S. Moorey, Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1971, pp. 197-199, pl. 53