Statuette of a two-headed beast; part lion, part bull (enlarged). Bronze. H. 4-3/4 inches, L. 5-3/4 inches. Iran, Koffrabad (western Gilda), 1500-1000 B.C. Purchase, John L. Severance Fund.

Artist Multiple (2021) 2 × 2 × 1 cm
Bronze. Limited edition of 52
Housed in a custom wooden box with miniature poster.

Figure 8 is a miniature double of a sculpture made by Ghassan Bishouty in Lebanon c. 1965. In 1969 an object of astonishing resemblance was sold by Ben Heller (New York, NY) to the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, where the object is still housed today. The title of this piece is a double of a descriptive caption by Mr. John D. Cooney in “A Medley of Bulls.”, The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 1 (January 1971).

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