A SARDINIAN BRONZE BULL PROTOME

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    Price Realized
    £240
    ($460)
    Price includes buyer's premium
    Estimate
    £400 - £600
    ($767 - $1,150)
    Sale Information
    Sale 7161
    ANTIQUITIES
    20 April 2005
    London, King Street
    Lot Description
    A SARDINIAN BRONZE BULL PROTOME
    8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
    From a votive boat, with long muzzle, tips of horns broken, mounted, 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) high; a bronze mouflon head finial, with forward-curled horns, mounted, 2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high; a Western Asiatic bronze stylized double bird head attachment terminal, 2 in. (5 cm.) high, both circa mid 1st millennium B.C.; a Roman lead turtle, dotted and linear decoration, 2nd-3rd Century A.D., 2½ in. (6.3 cm.) long; and a bronze stylized bird attachment hook, 2nd Century A.D., 1 3/8 in. (3.4 cm.) long (5)
    Lot Condition Report
    Item one: left horning missing.
    Special Notice
    VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.
    Lot Notes
    PUBLISHED:
    Item one: Animals, 1986, II, no. 49.
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