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LOT 1545
Romano-Celtic Marble Head of a Warrior
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D. OR LATER
6 1/8 in. (1.17 kg total, 15.7 cm including stand).
Squat carved head of a warrior with the hair cut close; reserved aquiline nose, incised lentoid eyes with carinated centres, slit mouth; old collector's label '286' to reverse; mounted on a custom-made display stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From 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.
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