A Marble Sarcophagus Fragment, Roman Imperial , circa late 3rd Century A.D.

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

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Description

A Marble Sarcophagus Fragment, Roman Imperial
Height 22 3/4 in. 57.8 cm.; length 18 in. 45.7 cm.; depth 20 1/2 in. 52.1 cm.

from the left rounded end of a strigillated sarcophagus, carved in relief with the figure of a lion attacking a spiral-horned Mendes antelope.

Provenance

Château de Madrid, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 1930s
Californian private collection, 1990s

Catalogue Note

For another example closely related in composition, style, and scale, in the Villa Borghese in Rome, cf. Jutta Stroszeck, Löwen-sarkophage. Sarkophage mit Löwenkopfen, schreitenden Löwen und Löwen-kampfgruppen, Berlin, 1998, p. 154, no. 352, pls. 46.5 and 47.3, dated as “Tetrarchic.” For a larger example with similar composition in the Octagonal Courtyard of the Vatican Belvedere see Stroszeck, op. cit., p. 157, no. 372, pls. 40.4, 41.2, and 93.1, dated to A.D. 260-270. Also see Metropolitan Museum of Art L.1993.47.4 (Sotheby's, New York, December 17th, 1992, no. 148, and Stroszeck, op. cit., p. 135, no. 225, pl. 48.1, dated to A.D. 280-290).