
A Roman marble relief with a lion attacking a bull
£12,000 - £15,000
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Joanna van der Lande
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Siobhan Quin
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Anna Marston
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A Roman marble relief with a lion attacking a bull
50cm high x 50cm wide
Footnotes
Provenance:
Private collection, Europe, early 1980s.
Archéologie, Piasa, Paris, 28-29 September 2004, lot 387.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 8 June 2007, lot 173 (unsold).
Christian Levett Collection, UK.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York and London, acquired from the above by 2016.
American private collection, acquired from the above, 27 July 2016.
Possibly a relief from the end of a sarcophagus lid; lions representing power and strength, were a popular theme on sarcophagi of the 2nd and 3rd Centuries, as seen on a 3rd Century sarcophagus carved at each end with lions goring prey, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, cf M. Comstock and C.C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Musuem of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, 1976, p. 154, no. 244 A.