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E-Sale 52  10 Jan 2019
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Lot 1241

Estimate: 1500 GBP
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Roman Bacchus Triclinium Mount. 1st-2nd century AD. A bronze mount, possibly from a triclinium couch, of the bust of a youthful Bacchus with open smiling mouth and eyes inlaid with silver, hair swept back with large rosette to the top, fillet to the brow extending to the back of the head binding the hair, and ivy leaves and grapes to the side; fawn skin hanging to the left shoulder, acanthus leaf below the chest; altar-shaped socket below; angled tine to the back. 532 grams, 11cm.

Very Fine condition, cleaned and conserved.

Ex Property of a lady living in Kent, UK, inherited from her grandfather in 2006, who acquired it in Germany after WWII;
Timeline Auctions, 27 May 2018, lot 113.
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