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Lot 79*

A Roman gold and glass cameo brooch

7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Roman gold and glass cameo brooch
Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
The oval layered blue and amber glass cameo carved with a sleeping dog, set in a gold mount framed by a band of globular and granule applied decoration with beaded wire outer border, the reverse with a hinged pin and a collection number M186 in red paint, 3.2cm wide

Footnotes

Provenance:
American private collection, Midwest.
Christie's, New York, The Leo Mildenberg Collection of Ancient Animals, 09 December 2004, lot 30.
Leo Mildenberg Collection, Switzerland, 1960s-80s.

Literature:
A.P. Kozloff (ed.), Animals in Ancient Art From the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Cleveland, 1981, no. 186.
U. Gehrig (ed.), Tierbilder aus vier Jahrtausenden, Antiken der Sammlung Mildenberg, Mainz, 1983, no. 186.

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