WESTERN ASIATIC CENTRAL ASIAN PERM KAMA FIGURAL PLAQUE 1st millennium BC A large and ornate openwork cast bronze plaque or mount depicting, to the centre, an anthropomorphic figure with shoulder-length hair and downturned mouth, wearing a tunic and trousers; above the head, a disc with human facial features, flanked by small anthropomorphs; the central figure's feet claw-like, standing on the bodies of two long-necked dragons; the arms outstretched, with fringed sleeves, a staff in each hand; to the reverse, two loops for attachment. 181 grams, 17cm (6 1/2"). Very fine condition. [No Reserve] Provenance Property of a Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK collector; formerly in a Russian private collection, formed in the 1950s. Literature See Rieff Anawalt, P. Shamanic Regalia in the Far North, London, 2014. Footnotes Objects such as these were created by the Finno-Ugric peoples who inhabited the north-east of Russia during the Iron Age. The culture is notable for its metal sculptures from the Kama valley
WESTERN ASIATIC CENTRAL ASIAN PERM KAMA FIGURAL PLAQUE 1st millennium BC A large and ornate openwork cast bronze plaque or mount depicting, to the centre, an anthropomorphic figure with shoulder-length hair and downturned mouth, wearing a tunic and trousers; above the head, a disc with human facial features, flanked by small anthropomorphs; the central figure's feet claw-like, standing on the bodies of two long-necked dragons; the arms outstretched, with fringed sleeves, a staff in each hand; to the reverse, two loops for attachment. 181 grams, 17cm (6 1/2"). Very fine condition. [No Reserve] Provenance Property of a Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK collector; formerly in a Russian private collection, formed in the 1950s. Literature See Rieff Anawalt, P. Shamanic Regalia in the Far North, London, 2014. Footnotes Objects such as these were created by the Finno-Ugric peoples who inhabited the north-east of Russia during the Iron Age. The culture is notable for its metal sculptures from the Kama valley
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