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Lot 138

A large Amlash pottery bull rhyton

Withdrawn
Amended
7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£12,000 - £15,000

A large Amlash pottery bull rhyton
Iran, circa 10th-8th Century B.C.
The hollow vessel with a wide neck and projecting neck hump, the head forming the open pouring spout, with two long curved horns and small ears below, a raised ridge curving along the dewlap and tail, the body narrowing at the waist and widening to the rounded hind-quarters, set on four pointed legs, 33cm long

Footnotes

Provenance:
Dutch private collection, purchased at L. Gijselman, Amsterdam, 18-19 October, 1988, lot 4504.
Accompanied by a thermoluminescence report from Oxford Authentication Ltd.

Literature:
Cf. T.S. Kawami, Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1992, p.135, fig.49

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