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LOT 2218
South East Asian Bronze Statuette of a Goddess
CIRCA 12TH-13TH CENTURY A.D. OR LATER
7 7/8 in. (399 grams total, 20 cm high including stand).
Modelled in the round wearing a tight-fitting ankle-length robe draped over the left arm; tiered headdress and long-lobed ears; hand arms bent and hands raised palm-outwards; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a family collection mostly formed in the 1940s-1950s, thence by descent.
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