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LOT 1152
Roman Style Bronze Cuirass
20TH CENTURY A.D.
20 7/8 in. (1.49 kg, 53 cm high).
Modelling a muscular male torso with naturalistic anatomical detailing.
Provenance
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Literature
See Peterson, D., Fotografare la storia, I Legionari Romani, nelle fotoricostruzioni di Daniel Peterson (Photographing history, The Roman Legionaries, in Daniel Peterson's photoreconstructions), Parma, 1992, pp.7-9, for similar.
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