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LOT 0850
Western Asiatic Bronze Horse Padlock
14TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (21.3 grams, 50 mm).
Formed as a standing beast with decorative panels to the hips and shoulders, holes to the chest and head, bar with spur and second beast-head.
Provenance
Acquired on the European art market in the 1990s.
Ex property of a Suffolk collector.
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