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A Piravend bronze figure of a woman
A Piravend bronze figure of a woman
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A Piravend bronze figure of a woman
North West Iran, circa early 1st Millennium B.C.
The upper section of the flat-backed and highly stylised figure with the peg-shaped body, applied circular breasts and upward curved arms, the horned head with prominent beaked nose, applied circular eyes and notched hair, 6.2cm high
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Provenance:
With Galerie Numaga, Neuchâtel, Switzerland from at least 1966.
Previously in a private family collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above, 7 March 1966.
Piguet, Geneva, 27 September 2017, Lot 576.
Acquired from the above sale.

Such figures come from the excavations at Piravend in north western Iran, some 10 km north of Taq-e Bustan, which was extensively explored during the 1930s-1950s.
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A Piravend bronze figure of a woman

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