Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Auction Closed
July 3, 02:32 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Roman Marble Strigillated Vase
circa late 1st Century A.D.
probably a cinerary urn, with splayed foot and twin vertical strap handles, the pyriform body decorated overall with strigillation.
Height 40 cm.
Portuguese private collection
Belgian art market, acquired at auction in Portugal
Galerie Chenel, Paris, acquired from the above
acquired by the present owner from the above in 2013
For a related example with fragmentary vertical handles in the Museo Nazionale Archeologico in Venice see https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/Veneto/ArchaeologicalProperty/CRV-RA_0013671.
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