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LOT 1123

Western Asiatic Bronze Idol with Dressed Hair

1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

1 3/4 in. (19.7 grams, 48 mm).

With conical hairstyle or headdress, tiered beard, pellet eyes and flange ears, arms extended, peg to the lower body. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From an important central London collection formed since the mid 1960s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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LOT 1123

Western Asiatic Bronze Idol with Dressed Hair

Sold for (Inc. bp): £124

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