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Auction archive: Lot number 15

A Cypriot terracotta horse

Antiquities
3 Jul 2019
Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,005 - US$1,508
Price realised:
£2,550
ca. US$3,205
Auction archive: Lot number 15

A Cypriot terracotta horse

Antiquities
3 Jul 2019
Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,005 - US$1,508
Price realised:
£2,550
ca. US$3,205
Beschreibung:

A Cypriot terracotta horse Iron Age, Cypro-Archaic, circa 700-600 B.C. The horse with applied harness and trappings, modelled with a ridged mane, the hollow body with cylindrical opening at the front, with faded black striped decoration, 19.5cm high and 17.5cm long Fußnoten Provenance: Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 December 1974, lot 175. Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired at the above sale. For a slightly later example of a hollow cast horse figurine with an opening at the chest cf. V. Karageorghis, Cypriote Antiquities in the Pierides Collection, Athens, 1973, p.145, no. 91.

Auction archive: Lot number 15
Auction:
Datum:
3 Jul 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

A Cypriot terracotta horse Iron Age, Cypro-Archaic, circa 700-600 B.C. The horse with applied harness and trappings, modelled with a ridged mane, the hollow body with cylindrical opening at the front, with faded black striped decoration, 19.5cm high and 17.5cm long Fußnoten Provenance: Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 December 1974, lot 175. Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired at the above sale. For a slightly later example of a hollow cast horse figurine with an opening at the chest cf. V. Karageorghis, Cypriote Antiquities in the Pierides Collection, Athens, 1973, p.145, no. 91.

Auction archive: Lot number 15
Auction:
Datum:
3 Jul 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
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