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LOT 0911
Roman Bronze Crouching Female Statuette
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
2 7/8 in. (80 grams total, 73 mm including stand).
Modelled in the round female crouching with hands resting on her knees, hair drawn up in a chignon; mounted on a custom-made display stand. [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.
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