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LOT 0055
Phoenician Comic Glass Face
5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
1 3/8 in. (2 in.) (7.9 grams, 35 mm high (13.6 grams total, 51 mm high including stand)).
Formed using opaque blue and yellow glass, with applied beard, hair, eyes and other features; accompanied by a custom-made display stand.
Provenance
Ex Gallery Rhea, 3 July 2003.
Literature
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 17.194.721, for similar.
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