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LOT 1710
Celtic Enamelled Bronze Dragonesque Brooch
IRON AGE, 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 in. (8 grams, 34 mm).
S-shaped brooch fragment with a transverse band of triangular and lozenge cells across filled with enamel; the head with a large eye with light blue enamel, curving ear-terminal above. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound near Driffield, Yorkshire, UK, in 2020.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Hattatt, R., A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches, Oxford, 2000, p.351, fig.210.
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