A SMALL SELJUK BRONZE FIGURE OF A PARTRIDGE
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Khorasan, Eastern Iran or Central Asia, 12th - 13th century

In the shape of a plump partridge, standing on webbed feet, with realistically incised lateral wings and feathers to the head, decorated with a central round medallion on the breast and an articulated beak, 13.5cm high.

Provenance: Sotheby's London, 20 October 1994, lot 61.

For a similar yet slightly larger bronze bird vessel also attributed to Iran in the Seljuk period, please see the Freer Gallery collection catalogue (E. Atil Chase, Islamic Metalwork in the Freer Gallery of Art, 1985, no. 11, p. 88).