ID 1248302
Lot 80 | AN ACHAEMENID GOLD APPLIQUE OF AN IBEX HEAD
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 15 000
IRAN, CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
1 in. (2.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Reputedly excavated in Hamadan, Iran in 1920.
Maurice Vidal collection, New York, prior to July 1948.
Literature
A. Upham Pope, 'Recently Found Treasures of one of the World’s First and Greatest Empires: Achaemenid Gold Objects', in Illustrated London News, 17 July 1948, pp. 57-59, fig. 7.
Iran: pièces du Musée de Téhéran, du Musée du Louvre et de collections particulières, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée Cernuschi, 1948, pp. 36, no.60.
M. T. Mustafavi, The Historical Monuments of Hamadan and a Chapter concerning Avicenna, Teheran, 1953, pp. 140-141.
H. J. Kantor, 'Achaemenid Jewelry in the Oriental Institute', in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 1957, p. 18, fig. 4, footnote 94.
Exhibited
Musée Cernuschi, Paris, Iran: pièces du Musée de Téhéran, du Musée du Louvre et de collections particulières, 23-31 July 1948.
| Medium: | Gold |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Achaemenid Empire, Ancient Near Eastern, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
| Medium: | Gold |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Achaemenid Empire, Ancient Near Eastern, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
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