Jan 18, 2025
~ Finial, lion head.
Place of origin: Thebes (modern Luxor), Egypt
Date: ca. 30 BC-A.D. 642
Period: Roman Period
Medium: Wood, stucco, paint
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~ Finial, lion head.
Place of origin: Thebes (modern Luxor), Egypt
Date: ca. 30 BC-A.D. 642
Period: Roman Period
Medium: Wood, stucco, paint
"Ornament in marble. From the roof apex. Monument of Lysicrates. Athens. B.C. 335." A Manual of Historic Ornament. 1926.
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Achaemenid Gold Horse Head Finial,
Iran, 6th-4th Century BC,
The arched neck with raised mane, ornamented with a central plume, its ears pricked forward above large rimmed eyes, the muzzle with flared nostrils, the base of the neck with circular apertures on each of the four sides,
Gold, 2.6cm high.
Courtesy: Bonhams
BW Edit after Japanese artist of the 18th/19th century (Helmet Crest (Maidate)) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. 36.25.253)
#MetalMonday :
Indian Sacred Bird (Hamsa) Lamp Finial
South India, 17th-18th c.
H 30cm, L 16.8cm, D 7.5cm, Wt 1,154g
“Vessels in the form of birds and animals from India can best be understood in the context of comparable objects made centuries earlier in the Middle East (Zebrowski, 1997, p. 95). Generally, zoomorphic figures made in India and the Middle East served as ewers, incense burners, decorative finials and oil lamp reservoirs. In India, such vessels represent a rare tradition of non-religious figurative art from a period when realistically rendered animal forms generally were avoided on account of Islamic prohibitions on idolatrous imagery, certainly in north India at least. Cast brass and bronze zoomorphic ewers and lamp finials from South India can be seen to share the Middle Eastern Islamic antecedents of similar pieces from Mughal and Sultanate India.”
Egyptian bronze scepter finial, representing the god Anubis - the jackal head symbolises the ancient Egyptian deity associated with mummification, the afterlife, and protection of the dead
Made of bronze with a green patina, featuring eyes inlaid with obsidian and white stone
New Kingdom, Dynasty XIX (1307–1196 BC)
Dragon head finial, 11th-14th century, Iran
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