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LOT 2586
Copper-alloy Goddess Gauri Head
KARNATAKA, INDIA, CIRCA 20TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/2 in. (131 grams, 62 mm).
Modelled with emphasised facial details and pierced ears, resting atop a columnar base; possibly a votive. [No Reserve]
Provenance
An important collection of Hindu art formed by the late Jeffery Romer in the 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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