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.