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LOT 1853
Tang Style Gilt Bronze Flask
20TH CENTURY A.D.
9 1/2 in. (491 grams, 24 cm high).
With painted rosette and floral detailing, filling chamber to the shoulder. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Cotswold, UK, collection, 1970-1990.
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Post Medieval Bronze 'Fauno Rosso' Satyr
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Standing on a hexagonal base wearing a goatskin mantle tied by the forelegs around his shoulders, with poppy seed-heads and bunches of grapes by the left arm; in his raised right hand, a bunch of grapes and in his left hand a cudgel; stump of a tree by his right leg and barrel beside his left, with a lamb to the rear placing its foreleg on top; modelled after the so-called Fauno Rosso from Hadrian's Villa, now in the Capitoline Museum. 18.5 kg, 67 cm high
From an important Paris gallery, France.
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