LURISTAN BRONZE SPOUTED VESSEL

LURISTAN BRONZE SPOUTED VESSEL

Sligtly curved carinated body with incised decoration of lying goat between two lions, manes hatched; flaring upperpart with large narrowing beak.

Ex priv. coll. H.v.H., Netherlands, ex G.G., London 1980s.
H. 17,5 cm. Intact, green and red patina. Small chip from rim.

1st mill. BC, 8th – 7th cent. BC. Rare

Cf. P.R.S. Moorey, Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1971, pp. 276-280