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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.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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Ex private collection. with Artemis Gallery, Munich, Germany, early 1990s. Acquired from the above, 1999. Private European collection. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12101-218196.
