ANIMALS AND HYBRIDS BASEL 2023 CATALOGUE 28OPENING 9 NOVEMBER 2023 2 – 8 p.m. EXHIBITION 10 –11 NOVEMBER 2023 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. 12 NOVEMBER 2023 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. 13 NOVEMBER – 21 DECEMBER 2023 Mon – Fri 10 a.m. – 12 noon and 2 – 6 p.m. The gallery will be closed from 22 December 2023 until 14 January 2024. Packaging, insurance and transport are at the expense of the buyer. Prices in Swiss francs net for export.ANIMALS AND HYBRIDS CATALOGUE 28 BASEL 2023 Jean-David Cahn AG Malzgasse 23 4052 Basel Switzerland Tel. +41 61 271 67 55 Fax +41 61 271 57 33 mail@cahn.ch cahn.ch1A DUCK RATTLE H. 12.3 cm. Light brown clay, coarsely grogged, dark grey coating, white paint. Middle and Lower Danube Region, Carpathian Basin, Late Bronze Age, 14th–13th cent. B.C. CHF 2,600 Above the conical foot the hollow rattle widens, forming the belly of the duck. About half- way up, there is a marked carination with four protrusions, the largest of which forms the duck’s tail. Above, the rattle tapers to a stylised head with a broad beak. Eyes formed by a perfora tion through the head. Small stones or clay fragments inside. Richly decorated with stamped and encrusted ornaments incrusted with white paint: dotted rays, hatched triangles, spirals, circles, wavy and dashed lines. A fragment of the concave ring foot restored, cracks on the tail and neck filled and retouched. Formerly priv. coll., between 1920 and 1955. German art market, 2021. The stamped and incised ornamentation which is encrusted in white is called “embroidery style”. - On bird-shaped vessels and implements and the above ornamentation, cf. D. Maricevic, Clay Birds as Reli- gious Objects and Works of Craft in the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age of the Balkans and the Car- pathian Basin (Conference paper: Croatia at the Crossroads, London 2013, online) 16 ff., illus. 4–9.2A RECUMBENT IBEX APPLIQUE H. 4,9 cm. Bronze, solid cast. Central Asia, Scythian Steppe People, 5th–1st cent. B.C. CHF 1,800 This openwork applique of an ibex resting on its folded legs originally adorned a bridle or garment. The curved body forms an entity with the horns and legs folded below the body in a manner typical of Scythian art. Drill holes enliven the head and body. Engraved grooves on the curved horns. The reverse is slightly concave for attachment to a fabric or leather. Intact. Formerly priv. coll. Mr. Ben Taylor, Austria. Thereafter priv. coll. Oliver Vit, Basel, collecting period 2000–2019, acquired from Archaeo Gallery, Australia, 26.9.2009. For an openwork applique of an ibex whose curved body, horns and folded legs are connected in the same way, cf. Harvard Art Museums, inv. no. 1992.299. For the style and the typical drill holes, cf. the ibex protome from a standard in the Yale University Art Gallery, inv. no. 1952.52.36 (both online).3A FINIAL OF A STANDARD WITH THE LORD OF ANIMALS H. 31.3 cm. Bronze. Luristan, 8th–7th cent. B.C. CHF 3,600 Lord of the Animals with cap, hooked nose and cross-belted chest. With his thin arms he grasps two animals with open beaks that resemble griffins. Underneath him, a human mask between two bird’s heads and above a broad belt. Two animal legs with feet form the transi- tion to the high base with flask-shaped foot. Upper edge of the base slightly worn; otherwise intact; pin missing. Formerly coll. Dr. Florian Papp, Munich (1964–1990s). Thereafter priv. coll. Oliver Vit, Basel, collec- ting period 2000–2019, acquired from Cahn Auktionen AG, Basel, 18.9.2009, lot 7. For the type of the standard, cf. G. Zahlhaas, Luristan. Antike Bronzen aus dem Iran (Munich 2002) 114 ff., nos. 239–240 with illus. For the younger type of slender standard bases with mouldings above the foot and on the lower edge, cf. P. R. S. Moorey, Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford 1971) 166 f., nos. 197, 209, pl. 39.Next >