Set comprising an engraved bone plate decorated with a woman - Lot 188

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Set comprising an engraved bone plate decorated with a woman - Lot 188
Set comprising an engraved bone plate decorated with a woman facing another figure (part of a casket?) and two carved bone cameos, one representing a female head and the other a putto head. Roman art, 4th century. The plate is preserved in a box bearing the handwritten indication "important part of a carved ivory, period of the last Roman emperors". Dimensions: 8 x 3.5 cm The two cameos are mounted on a cardboard box marked "carved bones representing a woman's head and a child's head". Provenance: Rome (Italy). Roman Period" and stamped in blue ink "A. HETTE" annotated C.140. Heights: 4 cm and 1.5 cm.
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