
Francesca Hickin
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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.