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LOT 0066
Bronze Handle of a Leaping Panther
2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
5 1/2 in. (180 grams, 14 cm).
Roman or Parthian handle modelled in the round in leaping stance with forepaws extended, tail curled between the legs, mouth gaping in a roar; tab and sprue between the forelegs, bar between the hind feet; furniture fitting.
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1980s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12744-234682.
Cf. Tassinari, S., La Vaisselle de Bronze, Romaine et Provinciale, au Musée des Antiquités Nationales, XXIXe supplément de Gallia, Paris, 1975, items 152, 178, for type.
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