LURISTAN CAST BRONZE FINIAL

LURISTAN CAST BRONZE FINIAL

‘Master of Animals’ type, anthropomorphic tube flanked by rampant animals

Ex priv. coll. D. W., Netherlands 1990s
H. 14 cm. Dark green patina.

8th – 7th cent. BC

Cf. W. Hornbostel e.a. Kunst der antike, Hamburg 1079, no. 38;
P.R.DS. Moorey, Catalogue of the Ancient Pwersian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1971, no. 175