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LOT 0556
Romano-British Enamelled Bronze Horse and Rider Brooch
2ND CENTURY AD
1 1/4 in. (3.45 grams, 33 mm).
With panels to the cloak and horse's body for enamel fill, notched outline to the hair and mane, pin and catchplate to verso.
Provenance
Acquired in the 1980s-1990s.
Ex property of a German collector 2016.
Property of an Essex, UK, lady.
Literature
Cf. Hattatt, R., Brooches of Antiquity, Oxford, 1987, item 1175.
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