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A Persian terracotta lion rhyton

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

£4,000 - £6,000

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A Persian terracotta lion rhyton
Iran, circa 1st Millennium B.C.
The recumbent lion with slender legs folded beneath the body, an applied tail curling around its right haunch, the gaping mouth forming the spout, with incised eyes and applied comma-shaped ears, with an incised radiate mane beneath the flared fill hole, 18.5cm long,

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Provenance:
UK private collection.
Christie's, London, 24 October 2013, lot 13.
With Mahboubian Gallery, London, before June 1981.

Accompanied by a thermoluminescence test report from Oxford Authentication Ltd. dated 16 June 1981.

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