A Bactrian copper alloy pin
Bronze Age, circa late 3rd-early 2nd Millennium B.C.
The finial in the form of two recumbent ibexes, facing in opposite directions, heads turned outwards, with long tapering horns curling at the ends, 19.9cm high注脚Provenance:
Melba Whatley collection, Austin, Texas.
with Merrin Gallery, New York.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above in July 1990.

For a closely related example see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 1983.535.23.