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LOT 0925
Large Roman Glass Roundel with Lion
3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/8 in. (10.5 grams, 28 mm).
Pale green roundel showing a lion's head in three-quarter view, the beast with open jaws and voluminous mane. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
LiteratureCf. similar heads in Kucharczyk, R., ‘Glass medallion in the shape of a lion’s head mask’ in Classica Orientalia, Essays presented to Wiktor Andrzey Daszewski on his 75th Birthday, Warsaw, 2011, pp. 277-285, fig.1.
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