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LOT 1091
Bactrian Bronze Stamp Seal with Human Figures
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 1/8 in. (99 grams, 54 mm).
Formed as three nude male figures each with one hand to the mouth and the other covering the anus; with vertical bar handle and ring finial.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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