PROTO-ELAMITE SILVER IBEX FIGURINE 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C. 5 1/2 in. (222 grams total, 14 cm (including base)). Modelled in the round in a resting position with its legs folded underneath the body; the head turned to the left, large curving horns, applied glass paste for the eyes; small loop to the back; repaired and mounted on a custom-made display stand. PROVENANCE: Ex private collection, 1960s-1970s. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. Accompanied by a copy of metallurgic analytical results, written by metallurgist Dr Peter Northover (ex Department of Materials, Materials Science-Based Archaeology Group & Department of Materials, University of Oxford). This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11743-202215. LITERATURE: See a similar figure of a silver mountain goat, in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, inventory no. 59.14; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number 47.100.89, for a silver pendant of the Proto-Elamite Period (also roughly circa 3100-2900 BCE). FOOTNOTES: Like the silver-gilt mountain goat in the Boston Museum, it is possible that this figure originally had applied gilded elements. CONDITION
PROTO-ELAMITE SILVER IBEX FIGURINE 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C. 5 1/2 in. (222 grams total, 14 cm (including base)). Modelled in the round in a resting position with its legs folded underneath the body; the head turned to the left, large curving horns, applied glass paste for the eyes; small loop to the back; repaired and mounted on a custom-made display stand. PROVENANCE: Ex private collection, 1960s-1970s. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. Accompanied by a copy of metallurgic analytical results, written by metallurgist Dr Peter Northover (ex Department of Materials, Materials Science-Based Archaeology Group & Department of Materials, University of Oxford). This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11743-202215. LITERATURE: See a similar figure of a silver mountain goat, in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, inventory no. 59.14; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number 47.100.89, for a silver pendant of the Proto-Elamite Period (also roughly circa 3100-2900 BCE). FOOTNOTES: Like the silver-gilt mountain goat in the Boston Museum, it is possible that this figure originally had applied gilded elements. CONDITION
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