A Near Eastern Marble Figure of a Pregnant Mouflon
Sale 1273 - Antiquities & Ancient Art: Including Property from the Brummer Collection
Dec 5, 2023
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Live / Chicago
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$2,000 -
3,000
Price Realized
$6,930
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Lot Description
A Near Eastern Marble Figure of a Pregnant Mouflon
Circa 3rd Millennium B.C.
Length 5 3/8 inches (13.65 cm).
Property from a Private Estate, Cleveland, Ohio
Provenance:
Leo Mildenberg Collection, Switzerland, 1960s-80s.
Christie's, London, A Peaceable Kingdom: The Leo Mildenberg Collection of Ancient Animals, 26-27 October 2004, Lot 154.
Exhibited:
Munich, Prähistorische Staatssammlung; Mannheim, Reiss-Museum; Jerusalem, Bible Lands Museum; Bonn, Akademisches Kunstmuseum; Stendal, Winckelmann-Museum, Out of Noah’s Ark: Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, 11 October 1996-28 June 1999.
Published:
A. Walker (ed.), Animals in Ancient Art From the Leo Mildenberg Collection: Part III, Mainz, 1996, no. 250.
P. Mottahedeh (ed.), Out of Noah's Ark: Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Jerusalem, 1996, no. 150.
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