Two Roman Bronze Appliques

Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.

Height 4 3/4 inches (12 cm).

This lot is located in Chicago.

Provenance:

Christie's, London, Antiquities, 25 October 2007, Lot 56.

Private Collection, France, prior to 2008.

Christie’s, London, Antiquities, 29 April 2008, Lot 157.

Aphrodite Ancient Art, New York, prior to 2013

(Art of the Ancients, Vol. I, 2013, p. 22, no. 18).

[accompanied with copy of a French Ministry of Culture export certificate]

For a similar example, see M. Comstock and C. Vermeule, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1971, pp. 436-7. no. 641.

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