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LOT 0100

Roman Figure of a Boy in Oriental Dress

1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

2 3/8 in. (14.6 grams, 61 mm).

A bronze figure of a child sitting with one leg extended and the other bent beneath the body, arms raised in supplication; loose fitting trousers and knee-length tunic gathered at the waist, boots on the feet and a separate pointed hood on the head; Scythian or similar costume.

Provenance

Private Swiss collection, acquired 2001.

Literature

See Jacobson, E., The Art of the Scythians: The Interpenetration of Cultures at the Edge of the Hellenic World, Leiden, 1995, for discussion.

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LOT 0100

Roman Figure of a Boy in Oriental Dress

Estimate £1,000 - 1,400€1,160 - 1,620 (for guidance only)$1,350 - 1,890 (for guidance only)

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