1st millennium B.C.. Comprising a barrel-shaped collar with raised corrugated rim to each end; flat-section curved neck with beast-head finial, incised circular eyes, long curved horns. Cf. similar item forming the finial to a whetstone in the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession no.32.161.13. 115 grams total, 84 mm including stand (3 1/4 in.).

From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. [No Reserve]