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Lot 155

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

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Five Luristan bronze axe heads
Iran, early 2nd-1st Millennium B.C.
One with large flaring blade extending from the open mouth of a lion, with a rounded protome at the back of the cut away shaft; one surmounted with a human figure being attacked by two felines; one surmounted by a feline carrying prey in its mouth; and two with long collared butt-spikes and shafts with ridged cord decoration, 4¾in-8in (12cm-20.2cm) long (5)

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Provenance:
English private collection.
Christie's London, 25 October 2007, lot 117.
Property of a Princely Collection, formed in the 1960s.

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