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TWO GREEK BRONZE ANIMALS FROM CARYATID MIRROR RIMS
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TWO GREEK BRONZE ANIMALS FROM CARYATID MIRROR RIMS

5TH CENTURY B.C.

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TWO GREEK BRONZE ANIMALS FROM CARYATID MIRROR RIMS
5TH CENTURY B.C.
A goat with incised decoration on back and a moveable ring attached, and a hare with fur indicated by lightly incised lines, each depicted running, both on integral curved plinths, 1¾ in. (4.5 cm.) long max.; and a Roman bronze figure of a running dog, wearing collar, with silver inlaid eyes, the tail missing, on integral narrow base, 1st-2nd Century A.D., 1½ in. (3.8 cm.) long (3)
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Animals, 1981, I, no. 117 (item two), no. 183 (item three); and Animals, 1986, II, no. 60 (item one).

Cf. M. Comstock and C. Vermeule, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes, Boston, 1971, pp. 245-246, no. 355 for a mirror with running animals.

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