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Property from a Princely Collection (Lots 1-74)
Lot 38

An Achaemenid silver alloy recumbent horned goat

4 July 2024, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Achaemenid silver alloy recumbent horned goat
Circa 6th-4th Century B.C.
8.5cm long

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Provenance:
Private collection, France, acquired on the art market in the 1980s.
Anonymous sale; Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris, 1 June 2012, lot 180.
Property from a Princely Collection, acquired at the above sale.

Wild mountain goats were an important aspect of ancient Persian iconography. Unlike Mesopotamia, which is flat, Iran is mountainous, and mountain goats, with their distinctive curved horns, became a symbol of Iranian identity.

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