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Ormsby Mount Ormsby Mount

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Ormsby Mount

Unknown Artist

Art Funded
2000
Dimensions
5 cm
Vendor
G Taylor
Rectangular form with projecting terminals in form of two frontally facing heads, each with slit mouth, bulbous eyes and arched eyebrows, framed by centrally parted hair in twisted strands, two 'curls' on the shoulders.

Pierced twice for attachment.

Provenance

Found in Ormsby, Lincolnshire; Christie's 1999, not sold.

Copper alloy

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