Finial with Two Felines

Description Finials for ceremonial standards and bridle bits with animal forms are characteristic of the metalwork produced by the hunter societies of Luristan about 1050-600 BC. The life of the hunter is built around animals, as food, transportation, and the embodiment of the unfathomable forces of nature.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
2/15/1972	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• The Allure of Bronze. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995.

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1913