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LOT 0113
Greek Bronze Duck's Head
3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.
4 in. (236 grams, 10.1 cm).
Modelled in the round with realistic features, textured plumage, rounded beak.
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12378-226677.
Literature
Cf. Richter, G.M.A., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes, New York, 1915, no.652, for similar head forming a finial.
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