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LOT 0880
Roman Bronze Bird-Headed Dress Pin
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.
6 1/8 in. (32.9 grams, 15.5 cm).
Substantial pin with slight bulb below the finial formed as a stylised bird modelled in the round with bulbous head and eyes, lobed tail. [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.
Literature
See Corbet Anderson, J., The Roman City of Uriconium, London, 1867, p.79ff, for discussion.
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