Bowl with Ibexes

Bowl with Ibexes

Iron Age III, ca. late 8th – 7th Century BC

Western Iran

Bronze
4.5 cm High x 18 cm

2018.010.055

This bronze bowl is composed of a short flaring neck and lobed body. The inside of the bowl is decorated with two rearing ibexes in repoussé within a roundel framed by three concentric circles of varying width. The musculature of the ibexes and their horns are beautifully detailed. Several bowls of this type were excavated at War Kabud and Chamzhi-Mumah in Luristan, and date to the late eighth – early 7th century BC.

The bowl was purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection on 7 July 1973 in Marseille, France at the Hotel des ventes du Prado: Vente aux enchères publiques, archeologie, objets de fouilles, monnaies anciennes, lot number 71.

Gift of the Georges Ricard Foundation

Parallels and References:
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 32.1611
Muscarella, Oscar W. 1988. Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 206, no. 316.

Calmeyer, Peter. 1964. Altiranische Bronzen der Sammlung Bröckelschen. Berlin: Staatlichen Museen, p. 43, Taf. 57, no. 110.