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LOT 0819
Roman Bronze Traveller Statuette
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
2 1/2 in. (35.8 grams total, 64 mm including stand).
Hollow-formed figure wearing a paenula and with hands extended to support a patera or salver; 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.
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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