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LOT 0556
Greek Bronze Bird Figure
8TH CENTURY B.C.
1 5/8 in. (21.9 grams, 42 mm).
Amuletic pendant formed as a perching bird with long neck and stub legs, loop to the back.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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