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Lot 164

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

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A Luristan bronze axe-head
Iran, circa 2nd Millennium B.C.
With large flaring blade extending from the mouth of a lion with long teeth, the shaft tube decorated with four clusters of three cords terminating in four lion's heads, 8¾in (22cm) long, mounted

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Provenance:
Jil Danon Collection (d. 2012), Paris, formed between the 1940s and 1990.

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