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LOT 0991
Western Asiatic Bronze Lion Padlock
CIRCA 13TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.
2 3/4 in. (71.7 grams, 70 mm).
Standing with open mouth and engraved annular eyes; voids to the chest and rump, triangular tab and hole to the rear of the head, hasp absent.
Provenance
Acquired on the European art market in the 1990s.
Ex property of a Suffolk collector.
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