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LOT 2444
Ordos Leather Applique Group
4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
2 1/4 - 2 7/8 in. (6.03 grams total, 59-73 mm).
Comprising three worked leather openwork figures: two stags each with scrolled tines to the antlers, crane with spread wings settling on a branch. [3]
Provenance
Ex Shinya Tagava, Honcho, Tokyo, Japan, pre-1986.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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