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A SET OF FORTY-FOUR GOLD REPOUSSÉ PLAQUES, ACHAEMENID EMPIRE, PERSIA, 7TH-5TH CENTURY BC
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2024年12月17日 开拍
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A SET OF FORTY-FOUR GOLD REPOUSSé PLAQUES, ACHAEMENID EMPIRE, PERSIA, 7TH-5TH CENTURY BC

Each plaque finely worked on a thin rectangular sheet of gold. Embossed, chased, and neatly incised with twenty-seven depicting rabbits, eight showing bulls, another eight with lions, and a single larger circular plaque depicting an ibex. The hares each rendered naturalistically in alert crouching pose with slender body and long ears, while the bulls, lions, and ibex have elongated bodies with densely incised fur. The reverse of each plaque with attachment loops. (44)

Provenance: The collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. István Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe.
Condition: Very good condition. Old wear, minor dents, small nicks, soil encrustations indicating a prolonged period of burial, light scratches, and minuscule losses. One plaque with two punctures, possibly for mounting. Some warping.
Alloy composition range: 66.2% gold, 31.57% silver, 1.42% iron, 0.69% copper, and 0.11% zinc. The lot was tested by the Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum.

Weight: 92 g (total)
Dimensions: Length 5.3 (ibex plaque), ca. 4.5 cm (bull and lion plaques), and ca. 2 cm (hare plaques)

Trade between smaller tribes in Anatolia and the Near East flourished under the rule of the Achaemenid Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great (550-530 BC) after Babylon fell to the Medes and Persians in 539 BC. The smaller tribes, like the Lydians and Scythians situated in Anatolia and the Steppe, paid homage to their Persian rulers who offered trade protections to their subjects. Both tribes are depicted together with several other smaller people groups on wall reliefs within the Apadana palace in Persepolis. Belts fitted with gold plaques, such as the present lot, have been discovered in Turkey and Iran belonging to various tribes during this period.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related set of thirty-eight Lydian gold appliqués from Persia, depicting hares, dated to the late 6th-5th century BC, in the Archaeological Museum, U?ak, Turkey, accession number U?ak 1.91.96.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s London, 25 April 2007, lot 174
Price: GBP 8,400 or approx. EUR 16,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A Persian gold repoussé plaque, circa 7th century BC
Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling, repoussé work, and size (4.8 cm). Note this lot comprises a single plaque.

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