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Roman Enamelled Bronze Slipper Plate Brooch Roman Enamelled Bronze Slipper Plate Brooch Roman Enamelled Bronze Slipper Plate Brooch
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LOT 0633

Roman Enamelled Bronze Slipper Plate Brooch

2ND CENTURY A.D.

1 1/4 in. (3.58 grams, 31 mm).

Shoe-shaped with white studs, pin, pin-lugs and catchplate to the reverse.

Provenance

Acquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Literature

Cf. Hattatt, R., Brooches of Antiquity, Oxford, 1987, item 1140.

CONDITION
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LOT 0633

Roman Enamelled Bronze Slipper Plate Brooch

Sold for (Inc. bp): £117

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