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LOT 1557
Iron Age Celtic Bronze Votive Horse's Head
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 in. (12 grams, 34 mm).
With carinated arching neck, crescent 'horns' above the forehead, inset blue glass eyes. [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. Durham, E., Metal Figurines in Roman Britain, vol. 2, Reading, 2010, plates 287, 289, for type.
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