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LOT 0747
Roman Bronze Mouse Statuette
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (46.7 grams, 49 mm).
Modelled in the round, crouching, holding a nut in its raised forepaws, tail looped to the rear. [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.
Literature
Cf. Durham, E., Metal Figurines in Roman Britain, vol. 2, Reading, 2010, pl.293.
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