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LOT 1550
Iron Age Celtic Bronze Mirror Handle
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
4 1/2 in. (92 grams, 11.2 cm).
Handle for a hand-mirror formed as a large ring finial, two loops connected by a gussetted oblate bar, upper end developing to a volute scroll with symmetrically placed discs; La Tène design with swept curves throughout. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
Cf. Tassinari, S., La vaisselle de bronze, Romaine et Provinciale, au musée des antiquités nationales, Paris, 1975, fig.20, for type; similar though less ornate example in the British Museum under accession no.1981,0504.1.
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