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Property from a Princely Collection (Lots 1-74)
Lot 39

A large Near Eastern copper alloy pectoral

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

£4,000 - £6,000

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A large Near Eastern copper alloy pectoral
Circa 9th-8th Century B.C.
40cm high, 39cm wide

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Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Binoche et Giquello, Paris, 30 May 2012, lot 80.
Property from a Princely Collection, acquired at the above sale.

This impressively-sized pectoral, though seemingly Urartian in form, has incised decoration in the Assyrian style on the shoulder guards: here, there are two registers, the upper with confronting striding winged griffins, the lower with confronting striding winged bulls, the animals in each separated by an eight-petalled rosette.

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