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LOT 1071
Luristan Bronze Openwork Poppyhead Finial
13TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
3 in. (52 grams, 75 mm).
Hollow-formed with voids and scroll detailing, ferrous shank. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From 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.
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