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LOT 0320
Iron Age Celtic Bronze Figure of a Man
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-5TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/4 in. (2 3/4 in.) (22.5 grams, 60 mm high (45.6 grams total, 71 mm including stand)).
Formed with right hand raised and left hand on the hip, standing nude, ovate face with impressed eyes and slit mouth; mounted on a custom-made stand.
Provenancewith the Prehistoric Museum, Dingle, Country Kerry, Republic of Ireland, until November 2018.
Ex K. Schmidt collection, Cologne, Germany.
Accompanied by an Irish export licence, no. 6570.
Cf. Durham, E., Metal Figurines in Roman Britain, University of Reading PhD thesis, 2010, item 172 (presumed deity from Banham, Norfolk).
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Chris Rudd has collected ancient coins and antiquities since the 1940s. As an amateur archaeologist he found many himself at Badbury Rings, Dorset, 1952-53. He also dug at Hod Hill with Professor Sir Ian Richmond and at Wroxeter with Dame Kathleen Kenyon and Dr Graham Webster. Today he is best known as a Celtic coin dealer. His catalogues have been described as ‘an important research source’ by Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe and ‘treasure houses of delight’ by Dr Anne Ross. Coins and artefacts associated with Chris Rudd – as a collector, dealer and valuer – can be seen in The British Museum and other museums. This collection was formed since the 1970s.
