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LOT 0568
Italic Bronze Statuette of a Woman
3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.
3 3/8 in. (96 grams total, 86 mm including stand).
Modelled in the round, standing with peplos dress and a large stola draped over the left shoulder and arm, extending to the knees; hair dressed in a chignon, transverse band below the breasts; mounted on a custom-made stand. [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. Boucher, S. & Tassinari, S., Musée de la Civilisation Gallo-Romaine a Lyon: Bronzes Antiques I. Inscriptions, Statuaire, Vaisselle, Lyon, 1976, item 72, for type.
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