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LOT 0592
Roman Bronze Bust of a Kouros
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
3 in. (99 grams, 75 mm).
Modelled in the round with elaborate braided hair, large lentoid eyes, bare chest; hollow to reverse.
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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