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LOT 0150
Roman Bronze Silenus Statuette Casket Fitting
2ND CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
2 1/2 in. (124 grams, 63 mm).
Standing wearing a hide skirt held up with rope, lion's claw foot below. arched bracket to 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. Rolland, H., Bronzes Antiques de Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, item 398.
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