Lot 100
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A MESOPOTAMIAN BLACK STONE STATUETTE OF A MOUFLON, the massive stylized animal powerfully modelled with rounded body forming a continuous curve, with long horns, ears and tail in relief, 3rd millennium B.C.

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A MESOPOTAMIAN BLACK STONE STATUETTE OF A MOUFLON, the massive stylized animal powerfully modelled with rounded body forming a continuous curve, with long horns, ears and tail in relief, 3rd millennium B.C.
3½in. (9cm. ) long, 2 7/8in. (7.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Ancient Art: Gifts from the Norbert Schimmel Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Spring 1992, p. 54, no. 12 for a similar black marble bison; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Egypt and the Near East, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1987, p. 134 for a recumbent marble mouflon from the Indus Valley, circa 2000 B.C.

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