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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE DR LEO MILDENBERG (see also lots 189 and 193)

A BONE MONKEY FINIAL

FIRST HALF OF 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. OR EARLIER, MEDITERRANEAN

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A BONE MONKEY FINIAL
FIRST HALF OF 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. OR EARLIER, MEDITERRANEAN
Seated, with stippled fur over the back and deeply recessed eyes, arms and legs partially missing, repaired, mounted, 1¾ in. (4.3 cm.) high; an Achaemenid chalcedony recumbent bull amulet, pierced longitudinally, tip of horns chipped, circa 6th Century B.C.; a Mesopotamian black stone bear head amulet, with white hardstone inlaid eyes, circa 2500 B.C., both 1 in. (2.5 cm.) long; a Syrian cream limestone scaraboid seal, the base with a striding lion, pierced, 8th-7th Century B.C., ¾ in. (2 cm.) long; a Western Asiatic grey-green steatite stamp seal, the triangular base with antelope, palm frond and foliate motifs, pierced handle, 1 in. (2.5 cm.) high; a Sassanian style dark yellow stone stamp seal, ¾ in. (2 cm.) diam.; a Corinthian pottery krater, with later painted decoration, 5¼ in. (13.2 cm.) high; and seven other bronze, pottery and stone animals, comprising recumbent ram, two cows, two frogs and two lions, 4 in. (10 cm.) long max. (14)

來源

Dr Leo Mildenberg (1913-2001), Zurich.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

PUBLISHED:
A. P. Kozloff (ed.), Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1981, I, nos. 28, 158 and 53 (items two, nine and thirteen); A. P. Kozloff, D. G. Mitten and M. Sguaitamatti, More Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Mainz am Rhein, 1986, II, no. 20 (item eight); A. S. Walker (ed.), Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Mainz am Rhein, 1996, III, nos. 130, 150, 272, 30 and 149 (items three, four, ten, eleven and fourteen); J. Biers (ed.), A Peaceable Kingdom, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Mainz am Rhein, 2004, VI, nos. 10, 16, 36 and 18 (items five, six, seven and twelve); and P. E. Mottahedeh (ed.), Out of Noah's Ark, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem, 1997, no. 75 (item three).