Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part II

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part II

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Property from the Collection of Sir Peter Jonas

A Roman Marble Season Sarcophagus Lid Fragment, 3rd quarter of the 3rd Century A.D.

VAT reduced rateUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

December 8, 05:05 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Sir Peter Jonas

A Roman Marble Season Sarcophagus Lid Fragment

3rd quarter of the 3rd Century A.D.


carved in high relief with a personification of a Season in the form of a reclining figure of an erote facing left, with his back against the frame of the fragmentary central panel, holding a lagobolon cradled in his left arm and a fruit basket on his right knee, and wearing a mantle draped over the lower part of his body, his hair deeply drilled, two fowls hanging from a stick held by a missing second figure before him.

28 by 51 cm.

Sotheby’s, London, July 8th, 1991, no. 408, illus.
Cahn Auktionen AG, Basel, January 10th, 2013, no. 256, illus.
acquired at the above sale

 

For related examples, both late Gallienic in date, see P. Kranz, Jahreszeiten-Sarkophage (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, vol. V,4), 1984, p. 262f., no. 422, pl. 107,3 and p. 265, no. 449, pl. 108,2.