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Lot 123*

A Roman bronze incense burner

28 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£5,000 - £7,000

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A Roman bronze incense burner
Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
The long handle with a central draped female figure, perhaps Europa, alongside a bull, her hands on the head and chest of the animal, the handle terminating at one extremity with the foreparts of a centaur, the legs extended forwards, his right arm raised, the other extremity with two sets of spiral volutes and terminating in a disk supporting a cylindrical bowl with flanged rim and base, an incised double groove around the body, 29.8cm long

Footnotes

Provenance:
Private collection, Munich, 1980s.
London art market, 1997.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 10 December 2004, lot 605.
London art market.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 24 October 2012, lot 144.

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