Lot Essay
For a similar hybrid monster see on the ring handle of a ladle, no. 107, p. 152 in Özgen and Öztürk, Heritage Recovered, The Lydian Treasure.
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CIRCA LATE 6TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN ACHAEMENID BRONZE PHIALE
CIRCA LATE 6TH CENTURY B.C.
The shallow vessel with an incised fifteen-petalled rosette in the tondo framed by thirty larger radiating petals, a cast band joined to the rim terminating on each end in a bovine head, the ears folded back, the band riveted in place by two loop handles, each in the form of a mythical hybrid monster with feline foreparts, long curving horns, wings and avian legs
11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) wide
CIRCA LATE 6TH CENTURY B.C.
The shallow vessel with an incised fifteen-petalled rosette in the tondo framed by thirty larger radiating petals, a cast band joined to the rim terminating on each end in a bovine head, the ears folded back, the band riveted in place by two loop handles, each in the form of a mythical hybrid monster with feline foreparts, long curving horns, wings and avian legs
11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) wide
Provenance
Norbert Schimmel Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 16 December 1992, lot 20.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 8 June 2005, lot 51.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 8 June 2005, lot 51.
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G. Max Bernheimer
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