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122 - BRONZE SNAKE
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BRONZE SNAKE Hellenistic art, 3rd–1st century B.C. Fragment of a snake-shaped statuette, 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, February 26, 2016–June 19, 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 B.C.
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