A WESTERN ASIATIC CHLORITE LIBATION BOWL, CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C. A WESTERN ASIATIC CHLORITE LIBATION BOWL, CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C. A WESTERN ASIATIC CHLORITE LIBATION BOWL, CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C. A WESTERN ASIATIC CHLORITE LIBATION BOWL, CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C. A WESTERN ASIATIC CHLORITE LIBATION BOWL, CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.

A WESTERN ASIATIC CHLORITE LIBATION BOWL, CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.

Reference: ART600539

The bowl with a handle in the form of a lion grasping the rim of the shallow bowl, its open mouth serving as a tube, biting through the basin with the teeth emerging, the tongue lolling, its mane a series of layered triangles, its head with pulled back ears and deeply-set almond-shaped eyes once inlaid, with a hollow projection at the end of the body for attachment, the reverse with a stylized palmette tree. Mounted on a custom-made display stand.
14 cm. length.
Weight: 392 grams.

CONDITION
Very good condition.

PROVENANCE
Previously in an old British collection formed in the early 1980s.

NOTES
Similar sold in Christie's Antiquities sale3748 New York, 4 June 2015, lot 157