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Lot 145

A Persian terracotta horse rhyton

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

Sold for £6,250 inc. premium

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A Persian terracotta horse rhyton
Iran, circa 1st Millennium B.C.
The equine shaped vessel with a flared mouth rising from the centre of the back, the elongated neck with serrated mane and a line of applied disc ornament above the incised reins, the face with punched dot eyes and squared off muzzle, the small pierced spout in the form of a medallion suspended from a cord trapping at the base of the neck, 23cm high, 32cm long

Footnotes

Provenance:
UK private collection.
With Mahboubian Gallery, London, in the 1970s.

Accompanied by a thermoluminescence test report from Oxford Authentication Ltd.

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