PAIR OF BRONZE AGE / URARTIAN PYXIDES WITH WOLF-TOOTH DECORATION. Ca. 900 - 500 BC. A pair of bronze pyxides, each cylindrical with gently flaring sides and an everted lip, the wall ornamented with a continuous wolf-tooth frieze set above a moulded ring. For similar see: R. Matthews, H. F. Nashli, The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire, Astaraban Treasure, fig. 8.43, DP 283. Size: 110-125mm x 70-75mm; Weight: 490g Provenance: From the private collection of an Oxford gentleman; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets.