Standard Top: Master of Animals, Luristan Bronze

10th-7th Century BCE
Luristan, Iranian

Object Type	Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection
Dimensions	7 x 1 7/8 in. (17.78 x 4.76 cm)
Medium	Bronze
Credit Line	Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of the Marsden Hartley Estate, 1951.2.17
Accession Number	1951.2.17

Bibliography and sources cited for 1951.2.15 are appropriate here. Close comparisons appear in Zahlhaas, as #241 and in Pope and Ackerman, Vol. VII, p. 46E as formerly Stora Collection. Close comparison also found in collection of the Walters Art Museum, purchased from Kelekian 1931, described on museum web-page as “female fertility figure,” which seems unlikely but possible. -Rebecca Corrie June 2020