A Luristan bronze disc with a Master of Animals Circa 8th-7th Century B.C. 12.2cm diam. Footnotes: Provenance: with Fortuna Fine Arts, New York. Private collection USA, acquired in the 1990s from the above. with Arte Primitivo, New York, July 2014. This large disk shows a bearded man wearing a long, patterned robe and grasping an ibex by its rear legs in each hand, and was once part of a sizeable pin; see a comparable example from the Nasli M. Heeramaneck collection now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which measures 12cm in diameter and features a bearded man grasping lions (P.R.S. Moorey et. al, Ancient Bronzes, Ceramics and Seals, Los Angeles, 1981, p. 78-79, no. 386). It is noted that pins of this scale were most likely votive, and have been discovered deposited in large numbers at temples and sometimes built into the walls of shrines (p. 67). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: R R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing