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.

CONDITION

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