30 - COPPER ALLOY EAGLE

COPPER ALLOY EAGLE Central Asia, 2nd millennium B.C. Statuette of an eagle standing on its legs, with a curved beak and engraved plumage. Minor losses. Dimensions: 13 x 16 cm Provenance: Former European private collection, since the 1950s Boisgirard Antonini, Paris, December 17, 2008: no. 98 (ill.) Christie’s, London, April 14, 2011: lot 314 (ill.) Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA724) Animal, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, February 26, 2016—June 19, 2016 Bibliography: Boisgirard Antonini, Arts d’Orient, Paris, December 17, 2008, lot 98 Christie’s, Antiquities, London, April 14, 2011, lot 314 C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, 2014, p. 89 C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 24, fig. 21, and p. 80 A Central Asian copper alloy eagle, 2nd millennium B.C.