A Luristan Bronze Dagger with an Elaborate Hilt
Sale 910 - Antiquities & Ethnographic Art
Nov 18, 2021
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$15,000 -
20,000
Lot Description
A Luristan Bronze Dagger with an Elaborate Hilt
Circa 11th-9th Century B.C.
Height 18 1/2 inches (47 cm).
Provenance:
Art Market, London, 1997.
Phoenix Ancient Art, New York (Warrior: Ancient Arms and Armor, no. 18), 2012.
Note:
For daggers with similar fan-shaped pommels, see P. Calmeyer, Datierbare Bronzes aus Luristan und Kirmanshah, Berlin 1969, pp. 123-127, 122. Also, for penannular guards, see E. Negahban, Marlik: The Complete Excavation, vol. 1, Philadelphia 1996, pp. 262-263, pl. 121.
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