CNG 88, Lot: 2195. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Bronze axe. Luristan, circa 1350-1000 BC. Crescentic type made in two parts. Long socket with lion couchant on back of shaft, ribbons falling from below his belly. Front of shaft with lion’s head with “feathers” emerging from mouth, at which point the blade is attached with two rivets. Length of blade: 19.4cm. See P.R.S. Moorey, et al., Ancient bronze ceramics and seals: the Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection of ancient Near Eastern, central Asiatic, and European art (Los Angeles, 1981), p. 27, no. 49 for a very similar type with iron blade. Roughness and encrustation. Intact. An interesting type.