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LOT 1699
Romano-Celtic Bronze Warrior Rider
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
2 1/2 in. (30.6 grams total, 65 mm including stand).
Modelled in the round as a horseman with legs spread, shoulder-length hair, texture to the hair; right hand extended upwards; mounted on a custom-made display stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Cf. Boucher, S., Recherches sur les Bronzes Figurés de Gaule Pré-Romaine et Romaine, Rome, 1976, item 354, for type.
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