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Luristan Bronze Master of Animals Finial

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Fine Luristan Bronze Master of Animals Finial: Ancient Near, East, modern day Iran, Luristan, ca. 1000 to 700 BCE. An incredible example of a bronze hollow tubular standard in the style of a "master of animals". This motif features god-like figure

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Luristan Bronze Master of Animals Finial: Ancient Near East, modern day Iran, Luristan, ca. 1000 to 700 BCE. A bronze hollow tubular standard in the form of a "master of animals", rendered as a rod between the heads and necks of stylized snar

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Ancient Luristan Bronze Master of Animals Finial c.1000: Ancient Luristan Bronze Master of Animals Finial c.1000 BC. Size of finial 6 5/8 inches high. Fine Ancient Luristan Bronze finial Master of Animals. Condition:perfect. Provenance: Ex Collection of Mr

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Ancient Luristan Bronze Master of Animals Finial c.1000: Ancient Luristan Bronze Master of Animals Finial c.1000 BC. Size of finial 7 1/4 inches high. Fine Ancient Luristan Bronze finial Master of Animals. Condition: perfect. Provenance: Ex Collection of Mr

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Ancient Luristan bronze Master Of Animals Finial c.1st: Ancient Luristan bronze Master Of Animals Finial c.1st Millennium BC. Size 4 5/8 inches high + mount. Luristan bronze Finial with master of animals. Custom mounted. Ex Iraj Kashanian New York city acq

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Ancient Luristan bronze Master Of Animals Finial c.1st: Ancient Luristan bronze Master Of Animals Finial c.1st Millennium BC. Size 5 3/8 inches high + mount. Luristan bronze Finial with master of animals. Custom mounted. Ex Iraj Kashanian New York city acq

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Luristan Bronze Master Of Animals Finial c.1000 BC: Ancient Luristan Bronze Master Of Animals Finial c.1000 BC. Size of the finial 3 1/2 inches high. Very Fine Near Eastern Luristan Bronze finial with Master of the animals. Condition: Perfect. Custom m

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Luristan Bronze Master of Animals Finial Zoomorph: Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran and Southeastern Turkey, Luristan culture, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. A cast-bronze zoomorph of characteristically abstract form standing atop slender, delineated legs w

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Ancient Luristan bronze Master Of Animals Finial c.1st: Ancient Luristan bronze Master Of Animals Finial c.1st Millennium BC. Size 4 3/4 inches high + mount. Luristan bronze Finial with master of animals. (two finials glued in the center to look like one)

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Ancient Luristan bronze Master Of Animals Finial c.1st: Ancient Luristan bronze Master Of Animals Finial c.1st Millennium BC. Size 4 1/4 inches high + mount. Luristan bronze Finial with master of animals. Custom mounted. Ex Iraj Kashanian New York city acq

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Ancient Near Eastern Luristan Bronze Master Of Animals: Ancient Near Eastern Luristan Bronze Master Of Animals Finial c.1000 BC. Size 4 3/4 inches high. Unusual ancient Near eastern Luristan Bronze Master of Animals finial. Condition: Perfect. Provenance:

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Luristan Bronze Master of Animals Standard Finial: Ancient Near East, northwestern Iran and Turkey, Luristan, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. An intriguing cast-bronze standard finial in the form known as the "master of animals." The composition depicts an abstr

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A Luristan Bronze Master of the Animals Finial: A Luristan Bronze Master of the Animals Finial Iran, Circa 9th-7th Century B.C. Height 8 1/16 inches (20.5 cm). Property from a Southern Collector

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Luristan Bronze Master of Animals Standard Finial: Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran, Luristan, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A hollow cast-bronze tubular standard in the style of a "master of animals," a Janus-headed figure whose body is represented as the

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Luristan Bronze Master of Animals Finial

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Luristan ; Early 1st millennium BCA high quality example, finely cast and with great patina. Custom stand.

4 - 1/8" (10.5 cm)

Provenance: The John J. Slocum Collection Mr. Slocum (1914-1997) collected most of his antiquities while serving as US cultural attache to Egypt in the 1960s. Later, he served as Assistant to the Director of The Smithsonian, was appointed by President Reagan to the Presidential Cultural Property Advisory Committee, and was a Trustee Emeritus of the Archaeological Institute of America. He was a well-respected scholar/collector, whose medieval crusader coins were sold in a single-owner sale at SothebyÂ’s, London in 1997.

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