Details
A SYRIAN STEATITE LIBATION BOWL
CIRCA 8TH CENTURY B.C.
Of shallow circular form, with four lion heads on the flat rim facing inwards, all with deeply-recessed eyes for now-missing inlays, their details incised, with one lion head extending into a loop handle, its mane a series of diamonds and triangles, the head opposite drilled through and terminating in a projecting trough spout, with rectangular recesses on the rim for now-missing inlays
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) long
Provenance
Bela Hein collection, Paris.
Dr G. F. Reber (1880-1959) collection, Lausanne; and thence by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 8 June 2012, lot 46.
Literature
H. T. Bossert, Altsyrien, Tubingen, 1951, p. 51, no. 763, pl. 225, nos 1-2.
Exhibited
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, 1946-2006.
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