CIRCA MID-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

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AN ANATOLIAN BRONZE CHARIOT
CIRCA MID-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
The chariot, pulled by two solid cast oxen, with four large flat disc wheels, the rectangular cart with vertical twisted wire balustrades and two balustrades at the rear, a tubular container for a separately-made scythe on the left side, with long shaft attaching to the oxen's yokes, bound to the curving horns with wires, reins running from the top of the cart to the yoke
10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) long

Provenance

Art market, Maryland, USA, 1989.
with Fortuna Fine Arts, New York.
Anonymous sale; Annie Kevorkian, Boisgirard & Associes, Arts d'Orient, Paris, 28 November 2005, lot 71.
Private collection, Germany.

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Lot Essay

For similar cf. The Pomerance Collection of Ancient Art , The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1966, p. 29, no. 26, D. von Bothmer, Glories of the Past; Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, p. 31, no. 18. and O. White Muscarella, Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artefacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, p. 414-415, no. 568.

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