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BRONZE HORSE NOSE BAND
See original version (French)
32
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BRONZE HORSE NOSE BAND
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
BRONZE HORSE NOSE BAND
Probably from the Near East, early 1st millennium BC.
Horse nose band with a protruding central ridge and cut-outs for the nostrils.
Damage and losses.
Length: 24 cm
Provenance: Former collection of Axel Guttmann (1944–2001), Berlin
Hermann Historica, Munich, 7 October 2009: no. 162 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA421)
Bibliography: Hermann Historica, Auction 58, Munich, 7 October 2009, lot 162
M. Burns, ‘Graeco-Italic Militaria’ in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 206, fig. 74
A bronze horse muzzle-guard,
Probably from the Near East, early 1st millennium BC.
See original version (French)
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