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THBAnatolian Bronze Bull w/ Gold Leaf Face Mask
Lot 63a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Mar 12, 2020
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Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian Icons, Fine art, much more! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Ancient Near East, Anatolia, ca. late 2nd millennium BCE. A wonderful cast-bronze bull figurine, a symbol of both fertility and virility in the ancient world, with a stocky body standing atop a quartet of powerful legs. The bull has a shallow hump on the back of the body indicative of a tail, and a sizable head protrudes outward from a thick neck. The serene zoomorphic countenance presents with bulging hemispherical eyes, a cylindrical snout with incised rings around the muzzle, a horizontal striation denoting the mouth, and a pair of pierced ears bedecked with slender gold earrings. A layer of 93% gold leaf (equivalent to 22K+ gold) envelops the head and accentuates the finer details as well as the pair of huge, curving horns. Matte patina covers the entire body in attractive green and brown hues. Size: 3" L x 1.75" W x 1.9" H (7.6 cm x 4.4 cm x 4.8 cm); quality of gold leaf: 93% (equivalent to 22K+)
Bucrania - bull heads - were very popular throughout the ancient world, celebrating the ritual religious practice of sacrificing bulls as well as the symbolism of the bull as a virile, powerful animal. In the eastern Mediterranean and the Levant, the bull symbolized the god of fertility from at least the 3rd millennium BCE, and bucrania appear on documents and models of sanctuaries.
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection; ex-Madame Frances Artuner collection, Belgium, acquired in the 1960s
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#149965Minor abrasions to limbs, body, and gold leaf covering head, with small losses to gold leaf around horns and beneath muzzle, and minor softening to some finer details. Great patina throughout.Condition
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