Lot 3
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AN ANATOLIAN BURNISHED POTTERY RHYTON IN THE SHAPE OF A BOOT, with pointed toe, the rim flaring out above the ankle, incised with details of stitching and laces bound around the sole, circa 9th-8th Century B.C.

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AN ANATOLIAN BURNISHED POTTERY RHYTON IN THE SHAPE OF A BOOT, with pointed toe, the rim flaring out above the ankle, incised with details of stitching and laces bound around the sole, circa 9th-8th Century B.C.
5¼in. (13.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

For similar, c.f., B. B. Piotrovskii, Urartu, the Kingdom of Van and its Art, London, 1965, p. 76, pl. 23; and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Glories of the Past: Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection, no. 20, p. 33

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