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Monumental Pinhead with Female Fertiliy Idol and Animals, Early 1st millennium B.C.

Western Iran Luristan

Exhibited by Galerie Kevorkian

Material Bronze

Dimensions 22.3 cm

Status Vetted

About the Work

Terminal of a monumental bronze pin or finial, cast in the form of a nude female figure, standing with joined legs on a small bull, her hands cupping her breasts, a goat figurine with attachment ring on its back standing in profile on the top of her crowned head. Green patina.

Provenance

Collection M., London and New York (Inv. 1522)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Collection X (1st auction), 22 May 1980, lot 279

Literature

R. Ghirshman, 7000 ans d’Art en Iran, Petit Palais, Paris, 1961, front cover (ill.) and cat. 287, p. 51
R. Ghirshman, Perse : Proto-Iraniens, Mèdes, Achéménides, Paris, 1963, pl. 49