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LOT 1620
Celtic Bronze Horse Statuette
IRON AGE, 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
2 1/4 in. (20.06 grams, 57 mm).
Modelled in the round in advancing pose with one foreleg raised. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex DRG Coins and Antiquities, Bishops Stortford, Essex, UK.
From the private collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the early 2000s.
Accompanied by a handwritten dealer's ticket.
Literature
Cf. Boucher, S., Recherches sur les Bronzes Figurés de Gaule Pré-Romaine et Romaine, Rome, 1976, item 354, for type; Mackintosh, M., The Divine Horseman in the Art of the Western Roman Empire, The Open University, 1991, fig.7.
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