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LOT 0269

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,364

ROMAN BULL STATUETTE
1ST CENTURY BC-2ND CENTURY AD
2 3/4" (161 grams, 66mm).

A bronze statuette of a bull standing with one foreleg raised, head tilted and tail looped over the back.

PROVENANCE:
Property of a gentleman; acquired in the late 1960s-early 1970s.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Rolland, H. Bronzes Antiques de Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, item 242.

CONDITION
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