Elamite Copper Eagle

With wings held at the side, spade-shaped tail, large hooked beak slightly agape and arched brows above large circular eye. Fine incised lines for the wing and tail’s feathers, small incised ovals for the back and chest feathers.

h. 13.2 cm

c. Late 3rd millenium BC

Copper

Provenance

European Trade collection, since the 1950’s
Ex-English private collection
Acquired at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Boisgirard Arts d’Orient Sale, December 17, 2008, lot 98
Came into the UK with French passport number 106508 delivered on 15t January 2009
Acquired at Christie’s London, Sale 6060 - Antiquities, April 14, 2011, lot 314

Publications

Boisgirard Arts d’Orient Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 14, 2008, lot 98
Christie's, Sale 6060 - Antiquities, April 14, 2014, lot 314
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, 2014, p. 89
C. Dauphin, Les animaux dans le monde antique. Le bestiaire Levett, Serie Collection Levett 2, France, 2016, p. 24 fig. 21, p.80

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011
Animal, Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, February 26, 2016 — June 19, 2016

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