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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 4282690, member: 8267&quot;]The metal looks more like brass (an alloy of copper and zinc) than bronze (an alloy of copper and tin), but it may be a mixture. Without an analysis it is difficult to be sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like there used to be a piece of metal covering the open base of the figure, originally held in place by those tabs. If so, this may have created a &quot;microclimate&quot; in the base that would affect the appearance of the surface.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t believe it is easy to date such figures, as the iconography is conservative, they have been made in the same way for centuries, and continue to be made today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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