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BRONZE MONKEY VASE
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BRONZE MONKEY VASE
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Estimate €5,000 - €8,000
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Description
BRONZE MONKEY VASE
Western Asia, first half of the 2nd millennium BC.
A tripod vase with a globular body and a truncated conical neck, fitted with a biconical thumb-loop handle attached to the body. On the opposite side is a figurine of a seated monkey, its long tail hanging between its legs, its body leaning forwards and its left arm drawn up to its face.
Height: 27.5 cm
Provenance: Former private collection, acquired in the 1970s
Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris, 26 May 2011: lot 179 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA742)
Animal, Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, 26 February 2016–19 June 2016
Bibliography: Boisgirard & Associés, Arts d’Orient, Paris, 19 October 2003, lot 61
Boisgirard & Associés, Arts d’Orient, Paris, 4 June 2010, lot 61, p. 35
Pierre Bergé & Associés, Archaeology, 26 May 2011, lot 179
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 10 and 89
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 75, fig. 84
A Western Asiatic bronze vase with a monkey,
First half of the 2nd millennium BC.
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