Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds, ca. 9th–8th century

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Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th–8th century , Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, 5 x x in. ( x x cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, Furniture inlaid with carved ivory plaques was highly prized by the Assyrian kings. During the ninth to seventh centuries , vast quantities of luxury goods, often embellished with carved ivory in local, Syrian, and Phoenician styles, accumulated in Assyrian palaces, much of it as booty or tribute

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