Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I

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Property from the Collection of Sir Peter Jonas

A Roman Marble Marine Sarcophagus Relief Panel, Antonine Period, circa late 2nd Century A.D.

VAT reduced rateUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Auction Closed

December 7, 04:32 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Sir Peter Jonas

A Roman Marble Marine Sarcophagus Relief Panel

Antonine Period, circa late 2nd Century A.D.


from the front of a sarcophagus, carved in high relief with two confronted sea-centaurs in the center flanked by two nereids each riding a sea-horse, and at each end of the panel with a nereid grasping a sea-monster swimming away from a sea-centaur, multiple erotes cavorting among the figures.

46.5 by 209.5 cm.


English private collection
Hampel, Munich, September 20th, 2012, nos. 663 and 664, illus.
Jean-David Cahn, Basel, acquired at the above sale
acquired from the above in May 2013
For related sarcophagi see A. Rumpf, Die Meerwesen auf den antiken Sarkophagreliefs (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, vol. V.1), 1939, p. 53, no. 126, pl. 44 (P. Giustiniani), pp. 56ff., no. 132, pl. 39f. (Louvre), p. 59ff., no. 135, pl. 45 (Uffizi), and p. 63f., no. 146, pl. 47.

Two marine sarcophagi, each with central portrait medallion, were sold at Sotheby's New York in recent years: December 10th, 2009, no. 75 (Hever Castle), and December 15th, 2016, no. 62 (Giustiniani).