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LOT 1554
Iron Age Bronze Brooch
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
2 in. (9.02 grams, 49 mm).
Arched bow-brooch tapering to each end, one with flat palmette panels holding a pivoting pin and the other a ribbed catch with two small posts supporting a sprung plate. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman.
Cf. Hattatt, R., Brooches of Antiquity, Oxford, 1987, item 1371, where a Macedonian origin is proposed for the Phrygian-derived form.
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