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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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LOT 0925
Large Roman Glass Roundel with Lion
Estimate £50 - 70€58 - 81 (for guidance only)$68 - 95 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Roman Terracotta Bottle
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Opening Bid: £5
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From the collection of the late Bernard C. Pickard, Hampshire, UK, the owner of Bernard C. Pickard Antiquities, which closed in 1987, he had been collecting since the mid 1950s. Accompanied by a typed information display card.
Bernard Pickard was a close friend of Richard Hattatt, the renowned author of several books on ancient brooches. Hattatt acknowledges in his first book, Ancient & Romano-British Brooches, published in 1982, that Mr Pickard first aroused his interest in brooches and inspired him in writing his books during his retirement. Mr Pickard also wrote the foreword to the section on Roman animal brooches, op.cit. p.158-160.
