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LOT 0688
Romano-British Bronze Mask Mount
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
1 7/8 in. (2 3/4 in.) (68 grams, 47 mm (185 grams total, 69 mm including stand)).
Hollow-formed female face with short wavy hair framing a soft rounded face with lentoid eyes; supplied with a display stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired from Alan Cherry, Bournemouth, UK, circa 2004.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
See Rolland, H., Bronzes Antiques de Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, items 327, 328, for type.
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