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LOT 1648
Romanesque Gilt Bronze Beast Mount
11TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (9.2 grams, 51 mm).
Modelled in the round beast mount with gaping mouth and bulging eyes, attachment lug to underside.
Provenance‘The Ancient Menagerie Collection’ formerly the property of a Cambridgeshire lady, collected since the 1990s and acquired from auctions and dealers throughout Europe and the USA, now ex London collection.
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