ANCIENT ART FROM THE JAMES AND MARILYNN ALSDORF COLLECTION
A ROMAN WALL PAINTING FRAGMENTCIRCA MID 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Price Realised USD 87,500
Estimate
USD 30,000 - USD 50,000
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A ROMAN WALL PAINTING FRAGMENT
CIRCA MID 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Price Realised USD 87,500
Price Realised USD 87,500
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Lot Essay
The thin foliate shaft, perhaps a thymiaterion, is set on a black ground between yellow and red panels and recalls the decorative scheme of the House of M. Lucretius Fronto at Pompeii, a paragon of the second phase of the Third Style of Roman wall painting (see fig. 60 in R. Ling, Roman Painting). As Ling explains (op. cit., pp. 57-58), “The use of yellow, unfashionable in the early Third Style, became increasingly popular. At the same time ornamental detail grew more complex, with a marked tendency to the proliferation of leafy tendrils and similar vegetal motifs, and hints of perspectival recession crept back into the wall.”
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CIRCA MID 1ST CENTURY A.D.
A ROMAN WALL PAINTING FRAGMENT
Estimate: USD 30,000 - 50,000
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