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LOT 0726
Romano-British Enamelled Bronze Horse and Rider Brooch
2ND CENTURY A.D.
1 1/8 in. (3.21 grams, 29 mm).
With panels to the cloak and horse's body for enamel fill with traces of blue and renamel, notched outline to the hair and mane; remains of pin-lugs and catchplate to verso. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Norfolk, UK.
From a Kent collection formed in the 1990s.
Cf. Hattatt, R., Brooches of Antiquity, Oxford, 1987, item 1175.
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LOT 0726
Romano-British Enamelled Bronze Horse and Rider Brooch
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