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Lot 97

An Etruscan bronze mirror

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

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An Etruscan bronze mirror
Circa 4th-3rd Century B.C.
Engraved with two standing facing figures wearing diaphanous drapery, the left figure reaching towards the right, with foliate decoration around the edge, 15cm diameter of mirror, 33.4cm long including modern wood handle

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Provenance:
Property from a Dutch private Collection, The Netherlands, formed in the 1960s-70s.
Sotheby's, London, 22 December 1965, lot 167.

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