Mesopotamia - Circa 1000 BC

Period: Mesopotamia - Circa 1000 BC.
Title: Fragment of an Owl.
Medium: Clay, on a custom mahogany plinth.
Condition: This work has some losses, the condition is commensurate with age.
Provenance: The Collection was assembled in the 1950s and 60s by His Excellency Mr Aslam Malik former Pakistan High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand.
Thence is by family descent to the previous owner.
Wright Gallery Fine Art acquired part collection in 2018.

About: This is a fine example of early sculpture with exceptional provenance, likely from the Mesopotamia region and dating to approximately 1000 BC. Mesopotamia is a historical region in Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq, Kuwait, parts of Northern Saudi Arabia, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish–Syrian and Iran–Iraq borders.