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COPPER ALLOY EAGLE
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COPPER ALLOY EAGLE
See original version (French)
Estimate €3,000 - €5,000
Voluntary lot
Description
COPPER ALLOY EAGLE
Central Asia, 2nd millennium BC
Statuette of an eagle standing on its legs, with a curved beak and engraved plumage.
Minor losses.
Dimensions: 13 x 16 cm
Provenance: Former European private collection, since the 1950s
Boisgirard Antonini, Paris, 17 December 2008: lot 98 (ill.)
Christie’s, London, 14 April 2011: lot 314 (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. MMoCA724)
Animal, Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, 26 February 2016 – 19 June 2016
Bibliography: Boisgirard Antonini, Arts d’Orient, Paris, 17 December 2008, lot 98
Christie’s, Antiquities, London, 14 April 2011, lot 314
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, 2014, p. 89
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 24 fig. 21, and p. 80
A Central Asian copper alloy eagle,
2nd millennium BC
See original version (French)
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