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LOT 0795
Roman Bronze Statuette of Bearded Divinity
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
3 in. (54 grams total, 77 mm including stand).
Modelled in the round wearing a tight-fitting toga, with carefully dressed hair; supplied with a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a West German private collection.
Ex Swiss private collection, Basel; acquired from Gerhard Hirsch, München.
Acquired from the Swiss art market in Basel.
Private collection, Bern, Switzerland.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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