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LOT 0365
Iron Age Celtic Bronze Boar
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 in. (57 grams total, 47 mm including stand).
An exceptional figurine depicting a standing male boar with incised bristles; large head with prominent tusks and pricked ears, erect tail with large testes below; mounted on a custom-made display stand.
ProvenanceFound Dorset, UK, in the 1980s.
From Alexander Cotton collection of Celtic art, circa 1985.
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