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LOT 0114
Roman Bronze Griffin Attachment
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (77 grams, 53 mm).
Free-standing with stylised features, bulging eyes, hooked beak, pricked ears; piriform base.
Provenance‘The Ancient Menagerie Collection’ formerly the property of a Cambridgeshire lady, collected since the 1990s and acquired from auctions and dealers throughout Europe and the USA, now ex London collection.
LiteratureCf. Mitten and Doeringer, Master Bronzes From The Classical World, New York, 1968, item 286, for a similar griffin head.
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LOT 0114
Roman Bronze Griffin Attachment
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
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