One depicting the Doves of Pliny, the other a standing ox, both with polished black slate grounds, the former with scratched inscription to underside in a 19th century hand 'A. S...T...[?]/Firenze' and with various later labels and both with circular 'Anthony & Marietta Coleridge Collection' labels, inscribed 'WOA 58' and 'WA 98A'
Both 6¹⁄₂ in. (16.5 cm.) wide

The first: Christie's, South Kensington, October 1989, unknown sale, according to owner's records.
The second, Christie's, South Kensington, 11 July 2001, lot 151 (part).

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Pliny the Elder named Sosus of Pergamon as the artist who created the 2nd century BC Greek original, now lost, from which the Roman example formerly in Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli, now in the Capitoline Museum, discovered in 1737, that depicts four doves in various attitudes about a golden bowl is believed to have been copied.