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LOT 0673
Romano-British Enamelled Bronze Hippocampus Brooch
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (3.98 grams, 31 mm).
Plate brooch fragment with enamelled panels to the neck, shoulder and flank. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound near St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.
LiteratureCf. Rolland, H., Bronzes Antiques de Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, item 310, for similar imagery.
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