ID 888387
Lot 6 | AN ASSYRIAN GYPSUM RELIEF FRAGMENT
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
REIGN OF SENNACHERIB, CIRCA 705-681 B.C.
4 3/4 in. (12 cm.) high
Provenance
From the Southwest Palace, Nineveh.
Possibly with Charles Dikran Kelekian (1900-1982), New York, 1950 (Inv. no. 8407, described as "Fragment of an Assyrian relief, 'head'").
Private Collection, Europe.
The Property of a Lady; Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1972, lot 85.
E. Smith, acquired from the above (according to auctioneer's book; almost certainly Edward Smith, New York).
with Charles Dikran Kelekian (1900-1982), New York (photograph preserved in the Kelekian Archives at The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Private Foundation, California, acquired from the above, 1973.
Property of a California Private Foundation; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 1993, lot 222.
Dr. Vallo Benjamin (1934-2021), New York, acquired from the above; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
R.D. Barnett, E. Bleibtreu and G. Turner, Sculptures from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh, London, 1998, vol. I, p. 141, no. 735; vol. II, pl. 513.
| Medium: | Stone |
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| Place of origin: | Middle East, Mesopotamia, Ancient Near Eastern, Asia, Assyrian Empire |
| Category: | Frieze |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
| Medium: | Stone |
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| Place of origin: | Middle East, Mesopotamia, Ancient Near Eastern, Asia, Assyrian Empire |
| Category: | Frieze |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
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