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LOT 0139
Roman Bronze Horse Protome
3RD CENTURY A.D.
3 3/8 in. (173 grams total, 85 mm including stand).
Modelled in active leaping pose with forelegs extended, mane flying and mouth slightly open; hollow to the reverse with two attachment lugs; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
See Rolland, H., Bronzes Antiques De Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, items 400-401, for similar.
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Opening Bid: £1,500
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1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Standing nude with arms raised, legs in advancing pose. 37 grams, 60 mm
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.
The condition of the statuette does not allow a easy identification of its original characterization, but the position of the body shows a certain affinity with provincial statuettes of the god Neptune, especially produced in Gallo-Roman ateliers. Some statuettes of Sucellus, the Gallic divinity assimilated into the Roman Pantheon as the equivalent of the Dispater, brother of Jupiter, could possibly also bear resemblance with our statuette for the position of the body. -
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1st-4th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
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