Various Properties
Lot 49
A Roman wood table leg
4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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A Roman wood table leg
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
71cm high
71cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Private collection, the Netherlands, acquired in the 1970s on the Dutch art market.
with Galerie Nefer, Zurich, 1990s.
with Archea Ancient Art, Amsterdam, circa 2000.
with Galerie Chenel, Paris, 2012. (Animal, Galerie Chenel, Paris, 2012, p. 26).
Private collection, Belgium, acquired from the above.
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part II, Sotheby's, 1-7 December 2022, lot 142.
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale.
For a similar Roman table leg with panther head, but in marble, cf. G. Richter, The furniture of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, London, 1966, fig. 575. Carbonized examples of wooden tripod tables with zoomorphic legs have been found at Herculaneum.