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Lot 143

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1 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£40,000 - £60,000

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A Canaanite silver and gold figure
Middle Bronze Age, circa 2000-1500 B.C.
The elongated slender figure depicted standing with its right arm outstretched with the fist pierced to hold a weapon, now missing, wearing a tall pointed sheet gold crown, a sheet gold kilt at the waist, with styised facial features, the nipples applied and the navel incised, tangs beneath the feet, 10¼in (26cm) high

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Provenance:
Poché Family Collection, late 19th to early 20th Century.


Literature:
For a similar figure in 'Anatolian' pose from the 'Simiriyan' Group, cf. O. Negbi, Canaanite Gods in Metal, Tel Aviv, 1976, pp. 10-13, fig. 15/55.

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