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LOT 0902
Roman Bronze Bust of Child Dionysus
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (53 grams, 52 mm).
Modelled in the round with rounded childlike features, band of curly hair framing the flat face with sunken eyes garland and leaves in the hair, pounced detail to the clothing; attachment bar to the reverse.
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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