ANIMALS AND HYBRIDS BASEL 2022 CATALOGUE 27OPENING 10 NOVEMBER 2022 2 – 8 p.m. EXHIBITION 11 – 12 NOVEMBER 2022 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. 13 NOVEMBER 2022 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. 14 NOVEMBER – 22 DECEMBER 2022 Mon – Fri 10 a.m. – 12 noon and 2 – 6 p.m. The gallery will be closed from 23 December 2022 until 15 January 2023. Packaging, insurance and transport are at the expense of the buyer. Prices in Swiss francs net for export.ANIMALS AND HYBRIDS CATALOGUE 27 BASEL 2022 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 STATUETTE OF A STAG L. 8.5 cm. Bronze, hollow cast. Western Asia, Amlash, 1000–800 B.C. CHF 3,800 The stag stands upright and gazes into the distance. His head is crowned by eight-pointed antlers. Small ears at the base of the antlers. Elongated muzzle with blunt end. The elegantly curved neck transitions into a slender body with an eyelet on the back, a central bar at the belly and flat hindquarters. The shape of the figure reflects that of the large, clay stag rhyta that were popular in the Amlash culture at the time. Right antler reattached and retouched. Votive statuette or pendant. Formerly priv. coll. Munich before 2005. For a statuette of a stag from the Amlash region that is similar in size and style, and also has an eyelet for suspension, cf. W. Seipel (ed.), 7000 Jahre persische Kunst. Meisterwerke aus dem Iranischen Na- tionalmuseum in Teheran (Basel 2003) 162 ff., no. 90 with illus. On similarly shaped rhyta, cf. Seipel, 163 ff., no. 95 with illus.2A STATUETTE OF A BULL L. 11.3 cm. H. 9.8 cm. Clay, traces of white coating. Cyprus, Late Bronze Age II, 1450–1200 B.C. CHF 2,800 The bull stands on slightly splayed, powerful legs and looks straight ahead. Large, round head, cylindrical muzzle that is flattened at the front, powerful horns with protruding, deep- ly notched ears behind them. The eyes were applied separately and stamped with the circular stick. The dewlap is pinched out of the neck and forms a slightly off-centre ridge. The tail rests against the flat hindquarters. Fine drill hole in the mouth. Tips of both horns slightly worn. Surface discoloured. Votive statuette. From the estate of the Swiss art dealer and collector Elsa Bloch-Diener (1922–2012), Bern, acquired between 1968 and 1983. Stylistically related to a statuette of a bull in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. no. 74.51.825 (online). Likewise, three bull rhyta, some with handles from the Coll. Ohnefalsch-Richter. These specimens are similar with regard to their posture, the modelling of the eyes with a circular stick, and the ridge-shaped dewlap. Cf. S. Brehme et al., Ancient Cypriote Art in Berlin (Nicosia 2001) 49 ff., nos. 27–28, 30 with illus.3A KOHL VESSEL IN THE FORM OF AN IBEX H. 12 cm. Obsidian. Bactrian, 2nd mill. B.C. CHF 6,000 The body of this vessel for cosmetics is sculpted in the form of a sturdy ibex standing on four short legs. A slender cylindrical spout rises up from the rump. The animal’s stylised head is crowned by elongated horns that curve backwards and form a ring around the spout. The face of the ibex is rendered schematically in relief with large, prominent eyes. Two fissures through each horn, another fissure through the spout. Rim of spout lost. Two feet slightly worn. Formerly priv. coll. Guy Weill-Goudchaux, Germany, acquired between 1970 and 1995. Thereafter, by descent in the family.Next >