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1265521001
Description
Bronze cosmetic-grinder, mortar component. Centre-looped mortar, with brown-green patina. A heavy, robust casting, with short, very strongly-curved bow, profiled walls, angular keel and V-sectioned groove. The two very stylized zoomorphic terminals appears to be: 1) a bird’s head, with open beak – the down-turned upper bill suggests a corvid (crow or raven); 2) a goat’s head or the head of a fabulous beast with pointed muzzle and single, central, back-swept horn. Alternatively, it may be a crested bird or fowl. The D-shaped, plate-like loop, with circular eye, is markedly off-centre
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