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Lot 80

A carved limestone head in the Celtic style

23 September – 7 October 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

£1,000 - £1,500

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A carved limestone head in the Celtic style

Roughly-hewn with incised straight-cut pronounced brow and a straight, flattened and broad nose, with demi-lune mouth, the face with an overall textured, pitted surface, mounted on later stand, the head 11cm high, 11cm wide, 12cm deep, 17cm high overall with stand,

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 December 1989, lot 263 (part).
Private collection, UK, acquired at the above sale.

For two comparable heads see Bonhams, London New Bond Street, Antiquities, 13 October 2006, lot 219; and Bonhams, London New Bond Street, Antiquities, 29 April 2009, lot 282.

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