Provenance:

Charles Ede Ltd., London, December 1986.

Royal Athena Galleries, New York.

B. Bandy Collection, Rochester, Michigan, acquired from the above in April 1987.

Royal Athena Galleries, 2003 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XIV, no. 44).

Royal Athena Galleries, 2014 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XXV, p. 22, no. 33).

Artemis Gallery, Louisville, Colorado, Ancient & Ethnographic Art Through The Ages, 16 September 2021, Lot 74. [part]

Exhibited:

Florida, Coral Gables, University of Miami, Lowe Museum of Art, 1987-1995.

Indiana, Muncie, Ball State University Museum of Art, 1995-2002. [part]

Sotheby's, London, Antiquities, 8-9 December 1986, Lot 528.

Royal Athena Galleries, New York, 1989 (Gods and Mortals: Bronzes of the Ancient World from Italy to Iran, no. 93).

Private Collection (A.L.), Auburn Hills, Michigan, acquired from the above in September 1989.

Artemis Gallery, Louisville, Colorado, Ancient & Ethnographic Art Through The Ages, 22 October 2020, Lot 22. [part]

Exhibited:

Massachusetts, Fitchburg, Fitchburg Art Museum; New York, Hamilton, Picker Art Gallery (Colgate University), 1990-2016. [part]

Harlan J. Berk, Chicago.

Estate of T.J. Burke, Wheaton, Illinois, acquired from the above, 18 February 1998. [Lot no. 733]

Freeman's | Hindman, Chicago, Antiquities, Pre-Columbian and Ethnographic Art, 22 November 2024, Lot 112. [part]

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