Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I
Property from an English Private Collection
A South Arabian Bronze Head of a Bull, circa 1st Century B.C./2nd Century A.D.
Auction Closed
December 7, 04:32 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an English Private Collection
A South Arabian Bronze Head of a Bull
circa 1st Century B.C./2nd Century A.D.
with thick, overlapping dewlap folds, ribbed brows, recessed eyes with inlaid pupils, recessed disk and crescent on the forehead, tapering ornament above, and scalloped decoration on the remaining horn, an attachment ring on top of the head.
Height 15 cm.
Christie's, London, March 23rd, 1971, no. 113, illus.
For a bronze head of a bull of similar scale with sun disk and moon crescent on the forehead and openwork ornament above see Yemen. Nel Paese della Regina di Saba, 2000, p. 386, no. 390 ('A. 'Ali 'Aqil and S. Antonini, Bronzi sudarabici di periodo pre-islamico [Repertorio iconografico sudarabico, 3], 2007, p. 246). For smaller bronze bull heads fitted with attachment rings see 'A. 'Ali 'Aqil and S. Antonini, Op. cit., p. 240, IV.B11 and IV.B13.