ID 1248324
Lot 72 | A NEO-ASSYRIAN LIMESTONE LION HEAD PROTOME
Estimate value
£ 9 000 – 12 000
CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) high
Provenance
With custom-made wood base designed and stamped by Kichizô Inagaki (1876-1951).
Dr. Rudolf Schmidt (1900-1970) collection, Solothurn.
Barbier-Mueller collection, Geneva.
Archéologie, arts d'Orient: collection Barbier-Mueller et à divers, Boisgirard, Paris, 16 novembre 2007, lot 49.
Archéologie, Pierre Bergé, Paris, 1 June 2012, lot 148.
with Galerie David Ghezelbash, Paris, 2017.
| Medium: | Limestone, Stone |
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| Place of origin: | Middle East, Mesopotamia, Ancient Near Eastern, Asia, Assyrian Empire |
| Category: | Fragment |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
| Medium: | Limestone, Stone |
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| Place of origin: | Middle East, Mesopotamia, Ancient Near Eastern, Asia, Assyrian Empire |
| Category: | Fragment |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
| Address of auction |
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