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See available Near Eastern pieces →Central Asia, circa 1st millennium B.C.
Cast long slender tube below area of spiked projections. Nice encrustations and olive green patina.
Size 7 1/4 in. 18.5 cm. H + base.
Inscribed in black ink in shaft “Iran 2600 BC - M Dayan”
Provenance: EX R. B., 5th Avenue NYC collection.
There is a large corpus of metal work excavated from the ancient Near East. Luristan artists are perhaps the most famous as mounted nomadic warriors with fancy horse trappings, master-of-the-animal finials, standards, tubes, cheek pieces swords and daggers. Ex New York private collector. For further information and similar examples see Bronze and Iron, Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Oscar White Muscarella.
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