Truncated cone-shaped bowl with convex bottom. It has a mobile handle held by tw…

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Truncated cone-shaped bowl with convex bottom. It has a mobile handle held by two riveted eagles. Bronze with green patina. Slight limestone deposit. Northern Iran or Armenia, Iron Age III L : 16,5 cm

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Estim. 350 - 700 EUR

A BRONZE SITULA THAP, DONG SON CULTURE A BRONZE SITULA THAP, DONG SON CULTURE Northern Vietnam, 4th-3rd century BC. Of bucket-form, the vessel with gently sloping sides rising from a recessed base with a flange and curving slightly inwards at the mouth. Decorated to the exterior with bands of geometric motifs and applied to the shoulders with loop handles. The bronze with a rich patina and encrustations of malachite and azurite. Provenance: The collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. István Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe. Condition: Very good condition with wear commensurate to age. Casting irregularities, tiny losses, and signs of weathering and erosion, all as expected from ancient Dong Son excavations. Weight: 1,209 g Dimensions: Height 22.5 cm Axes, situlae, and drums play an important role in Vietnam's Dongson culture named after a site located on the coastline to the south of present-day Hanoi that was first excavated in 1924. Literature comparison: Compare a closely related bronze situla, Dong Son, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1999.414.2. Auction comparison: Compare a closely related bronze situla, Dong Son, at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2016, lot 334 (sold for HKD 100,000 or approx. EUR 14,000 converted and adjusted for inflation).

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