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LOT 0695
Roman Bronze Lion Statuette
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 in. (78 grams, 54 mm).
With detailed textured curls to the mane, standing with one foreleg resting on a sphere. [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.
Cf. Durham, E., Metal Figurines in Roman Britain, vol. 2, Reading, 2010, pl.290, for type.
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