Live Auction 5444Town & Country Perspectives - The Charles Plante Collection
AN ASSYRIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF PANEL DEPICTING THE DYING LION AND LIONESS
Lot 374

AN ASSYRIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF PANEL DEPICTING THE DYING LION AND LIONESS

20TH CENTURY, AFTER THE ANTIQUE

Closed4 June 2008

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GBP 625

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AN ASSYRIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF PANEL DEPICTING THE DYING LION AND LIONESS
20th century, after the antique
With relief scene to either side depicting a dying lion struck by an arrow on the shoulder, seated with head bowed and blood gushing from the lion's mouth, the reverse depicting the dying lioness, shown struck by three arrows down the back, dragging her rear limbs behind her, mounted
The panel: 15 x 25 in. (38 x 63 cm.)

Specialist note

See J. Reade, Assyrian Sculpture, British Museum, London, 1983, p. 55, for the original relief panel of the Dying Lioness (inv. WA124856). The Dying Lion panel can also be found at the British Museum (inv. ME 1992-4-4.1). Both panels were from a series of wall panels from Ashurbanipal's palace, dated circa 645 B.C., that showed a royal lion hunt.