CNG 88, Lot: 2197. Estimate $400. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Bronze anklet. Luristan, circa 8th century BC. Penannular form with plain ring giving to stylized lion’s head terminals. Maximum diameter: 9.1cm. See Oscar White Muscarella, Bronze and iron: Ancient Near Eastern artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1988), p. 275, no. 274 for similar. Mottled green patina, earthen deposits and very minor roughness.

P.R.S. Moorey, in his Catalogue of the ancient Persian bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 1971), p. 227, notes: “...on the evidence from cemetery ‘B’ at Tepe Sialk, that the average size for a bracelet from 4.5 to 7.5cm, that for the anklets 9 to 13cm.”