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A Roman marble griffin sarcophagus relief
24 October 2012, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,500 inc. premium
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A Roman marble griffin sarcophagus relief
Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
Carved below a plain upper border with a griffin above waves facing a dolphin tail, with drilled details including the tail and the griffin's features, 14in (35cm) long
Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
Carved below a plain upper border with a griffin above waves facing a dolphin tail, with drilled details including the tail and the griffin's features, 14in (35cm) long
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Cyrus Collection. Property of Fay Safani, New York.
Inherited from Edward Safani, acquired in the 1950s.
Literature:
For a similar representation of a sea griffin on a sarcophagus relief, cf. M. Comstock and C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone, The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1976, p. 170, no. 272.
























