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LOT 0144
Large Romano-British Bronze Dolphin Mount
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
4 3/4 in. (126 grams, 12.3 cm).
Modelled in the round, with dentilled fin and tail, hollow to the underside, scale detailing.
Provenance
Found Lincolshire, UK.
Literature
Cf. Rolland, H., Bronzes Antiques de Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, items 386-387, for similar.
Footnotes
The dolphin was believed to ferry the souls of the dead to the afterlife. This type of bronze figure was probably intended to form a doorknob.
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