.jpg?w=1)
CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN URARTIAN BRONZE LIBATION VESSEL
CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
The shallow bowl on a low disk foot, the wide rounded shoulders decorated with a frieze of incised bearded snake heads framed below by incised dots and above by incised dotted circles, the short neck incised with a scale pattern, the interior of the bowl with a projecting nozzle decorated in relief with two feline heads, their open mouths merging, their teeth and manes incised, the single high-arching handle in the form of a deity, depicted in the round, standing on volutes, with his hands clasped at his waist, wearing a full-length cloak decorated with an incised scale pattern, a long beard and a horned headdress, his head surmounted by a volute supporting a flat panel incised with a winged and bearded genius in profile to the right, wearing a horned headdress, his long cloak open to reveal his advanced left leg, his right arm raised, the handle terminating in a ram's head
6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) high
CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
The shallow bowl on a low disk foot, the wide rounded shoulders decorated with a frieze of incised bearded snake heads framed below by incised dots and above by incised dotted circles, the short neck incised with a scale pattern, the interior of the bowl with a projecting nozzle decorated in relief with two feline heads, their open mouths merging, their teeth and manes incised, the single high-arching handle in the form of a deity, depicted in the round, standing on volutes, with his hands clasped at his waist, wearing a full-length cloak decorated with an incised scale pattern, a long beard and a horned headdress, his head surmounted by a volute supporting a flat panel incised with a winged and bearded genius in profile to the right, wearing a horned headdress, his long cloak open to reveal his advanced left leg, his right arm raised, the handle terminating in a ram's head
6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) high
Provenance
French Private Collection.
Acquired by the current owner in the early 1980s.
Acquired by the current owner in the early 1980s.