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Lot 145*

A Roman bronze stool

3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £6,312.50 inc. premium

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A Roman bronze stool
Circa 1st Century A.D.
The circular seat with central depression and down-turned rim, set on a separately-made hexapod base, with an openwork strut with wave pattern, the legs with square finials set on rounded feet, 28.6cm high

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Provenance:
with Merrin Gallery, New York.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above in November 1991.

Bronze stools of a similar size have been discovered in Pompeii in the Houses of Ephebus and Fabius Rufus, see L'Erma di Bretschneider, Rediscovering Pompeii, Rome, 1992, nos. 56-57, and another in the British Museum, London, inv. no. 1856,1226.667, which shares the present lot's openwork wave decoration.

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