Antique and rare anthropomorphic perfume bottle, the neck of the bottle is constituted by the neck of the female character melted in hollow and which constitutes the receptacle, a reported head was to constitute the stopper, here replaced by the care of Bernard Hector by a dried seed.
Elam, Mesopotamia, middle of the 1st millennium B.C., present-day Iran
Bronze, very beautiful green and red patina of oxidation of age, dried seed.
H. 13.8 cm
Provenance:
- Former private collection, acquired in the 1960s.
- Sale Pierre Bergé et Associés of May 26, 2011, lot 201.
- Bernard Hector Collection.
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