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Lot 78W

1 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£10,000 - £12,000

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A Roman marble torso of a young boy
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
Possibly depicting Eros, the plump figure standing with one hand resting on a bird perched on a column, a drape wrapped across the left shoulder and falling in loose roughly hewn folds at the back, 16in (41cm) high, mounted

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Provenance:
UK private collection.
Sotheby's, London, 11th July 1967, lot 131.

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