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LOT 1949
Tudor Bronze Corpus Christi
CIRCA 16TH-17TH CENTURY A.D.
5 1/8 in. (103 grams total, 13 cm including stand).
Modelled with oversized pierced hands, head tilted, textured loincloth; mounted on a custom-made 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.
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