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Lot 184*

A Bactrian copper alloy pin

3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Bactrian copper alloy pin
Bronze Age, circa late 3rd-early 2nd Millennium B.C.
The finial in the form of two recumbent ibexes, facing in opposite directions, heads turned outwards, with long tapering horns curling at the ends, 19.9cm high

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Provenance:
Melba Whatley collection, Austin, Texas.
with Merrin Gallery, New York.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above in July 1990.

For a closely related example see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 1983.535.23.

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