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BRONZE SNAKE
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BRONZE SNAKE
See original version (French)
Estimate €800 - €1,200
Voluntary lot
Description
BRONZE SNAKE
Hellenistic art, 3rd–1st century BC
Fragment of a statuette in the shape of a snake, the body finely engraved with scales.
Length: 6.6 cm
Provenance: Former Belgian private collection
Rupert Wace Ancient Art Limited, London
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, acquired in 2011
Exhibitions: Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA771)
Animal, Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, 26 February 2016–19 June 2016
Bibliography: Rupert Wace Ancient Art, A collector’s menagerie – Animal Sculpture from the Ancient World, 2010, no. 19
C. Dauphin, *Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary*, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, p. 94
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 48, figs. 41 and 83
A fragmentary Hellenistic bronze snake,
3rd–1st century BC
See original version (French)
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