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FRAGMENT OF A MARBLE CINERARY URN
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FRAGMENT OF A MARBLE CINERARY URN
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,500 - €3,500
Voluntary lot
Description
FRAGMENT OF A MARBLE CINERARY URN
Roman art, 1st–2nd century AD
A fragmentary rectangular relief comprising a central inscribed tabula, flanked on either side by a bearded satyr’s head with ram’s horns, surmounting a figure of a hare tucking into the fruits of a cornucopia.
Dimensions: 19.3 x 36.2 cm
Provenance: Formerly in the private collection of a lady, England; acquired in the early 1990s at the Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair
Bonhams, London, 26 October 2007: lot 177 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA13)
Bibliography: Bonhams, Antiquities Sale, London, 26 October 2007, p. 80, lot 177
J. Pollini, ‘Roman Marble Sculpture’ in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 105, fig. 69
A Roman marble panel from a cinerarium,
1st–2nd century AD
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