A PHOENICIAN OR SYRIAN BRONZE MIRROR, the handle in the form of a standing woman, her feet together and hands crossed in front, wearing a skirted dress with two tassels hanging at the front from a thick girdle tied round the waist, facial features and details strongly incised, circa 8th Century B.C.

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A PHOENICIAN OR SYRIAN BRONZE MIRROR, the handle in the form of a standing woman, her feet together and hands crossed in front, wearing a skirted dress with two tassels hanging at the front from a thick girdle tied round the waist, facial features and details strongly incised, circa 8th Century B.C.
9¾in. (24.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. D. Harden, The Phoenicians, Harmondsworth, 1980, pls. 84-85 and 94a-b for bronze female figurines

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