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A Roman marble bench support carved with a central krater and lion head and legs at each end image 1
A Roman marble bench support carved with a central krater and lion head and legs at each end image 2
A Roman marble bench support carved with a central krater and lion head and legs at each end image 3
A Roman marble bench support carved with a central krater and lion head and legs at each end image 4
A Roman marble bench support carved with a central krater and lion head and legs at each end image 5
A Roman marble bench support carved with a central krater and lion head and legs at each end image 6
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Lot 52*,W

A Roman marble bench support carved with a central krater and lion head and legs at each end

Antiquities
4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£5,000 - £6,000

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A Roman marble bench support carved with a central krater and lion head and legs at each end

Circa 1st century A.D.
43cm x 57.5cm

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Provenance:
Private collection, Paris, reputedly acquired at auction at Hôtel Drouot in the 1970s.
Acquired from the above in 2010.
Ancient Sculpture & Works of Art, Sotheby's, London, 3 July 2018, lot 39.
Property of a gentleman, acquired at the above sale.

For a related example with central krater and a lion head and leg remaining at one end, see The Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, museum no. M84, where it is displayed in the museum corridor outside the picture room.

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