URARTIAN BRONZE FIGURINE OF A BULL. Ca. 800 - 600 BC A bronze freestanding figure of a bull with a compact muscular body, short sturdy legs with detailed hooves, and a thick tail falling straight down from the rump. The chest rises into a strong neck and forward-set head with a blunt muzzle, small rounded ears, and a pair of long horns sweeping outwards and up from the brow. Size: 220mm x 250mm; Weight: 2.88kg. Provenance: Private London collection; UK market of antiquities; Ex-collection of Francesca Zijlstra, The Netherlands, 1980s-2000s; Ex-collection of Jean Sigrist Collection, Switzerland, 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter. For similar see: T. Dezső, Z. Niederreiter, and C. Bodnár, Urartian Bronzes. A Preliminary Report on Urartian Bronzes, (Antiqua et Orientalia 8, Assyriologia 11), Budapest, 2021, p. 341.