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LOT 2215
South East Asian Stone Funerary Idol
4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C. OR LATER
4 3/8 in. (650 grams total, 11.1 cm including stand).
Carved in the round as a crouching figure clutching an offering bowl on his lap; mounted on a 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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