ANCIENT ART FROM THE JAMES AND MARILYNN ALSDORF COLLECTION
A ROMAN MARBLE TRAPEZOPHORUS
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
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Price Realised USD 87,500
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USD 50,000 - USD 70,000
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As C.C. Vermeule observes (p. 180 in “Bench and Table Supports: Roman Egypt and Beyond,” in W.K. Simpson and W.M. Davis, eds., Studies in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Sudan: Essays in Honor of Dows Dunham), “the manufacture of marble furniture became a major industry in the ancient world with the rise of Roman patronage in Cicero’s time and continued through the era of great imperial country villas around Rome until the decline of secular decorative art in the fourth century A.D.” The motif of a lion head emerging from acanthus, as seen here, was especially popular. For a similar example, see fig. 14A in Vermeule, op. cit.
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A crack to the proper-right side at the base of the mane with some losses and concrete fill along the side. Some losses to the lions’ teeth, proper-right ear, and to the plinth on the top right. Some losses to the foliage. With overall wear, surface abrasions, chips and incrustation throughout.
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CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.A ROMAN MARBLE TRAPEZOPHORUSEstimate: USD 50,000 - 70,000
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