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LOT 0727
Roman Bronze Appliqué in the Shape of an Actor's Mask
1ST CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (27.2 grams, 30 mm).
Modelled in the half-round, with grotesque facial features and scooped crescentic mouth, segmented beard; ferrous stud to reverse.
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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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