AN EARLY ROMAN GOLD HEAD OF A BOY

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.

Details

AN EARLY ROMAN GOLD HEAD OF A BOY
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
With chubby cheeks and short hair, with gold wire border below neck terminating in scrolls at the back, a hinge and hook below, probably the lid of a vessel
.5/8 in. (1.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Bense collection: sold Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1995, lot 224.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Mnzen und Medaillen A. G., Basel, Sonderliste M, September 1970, p. 52, no. 131, ill. on p. 51.

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