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LOT 1656
Iron Age Celtic Bronze Idol
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (7.19 grams, 32 mm).
Modelled standing nude with exaggerated discoid face, hands on the hips; arms partly absent. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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