Property of a Private Collector
A Roman Marble Column Muse Sarcophagus Fragment, 3rd Century A.D.
Auction Closed
December 5, 03:41 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
carved in high relief with a figure of Apollo Kitharoidos standing next to a spirally fluted column supporting a Corinthian capital and architrave with deeply drilled decoration, a fragmentary Greek inscription on the stylobate.
74 by 35 by 14 cm.
Dr Joseph R. Little, North Carolina (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, November 20th-21st, 1975, no. 680, illus.)
Alain de Monbrison, Paris
acquired by the current owner from the above on May 21st, 1976
For a larger-scale "Asiatic" column sarcophagus panel in the Galleria Borghese in Rome showing Apollo flanked by the Muses, see M. Wegner, Die Musensarkophage (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, vol. V.3), 1966, p. 78f., no. 206, pl. 17f., and V. M. Strocka, Dokimenische Säulensarkophage (Asia Minor Studien, vol. 82), 2017, p. 250, no. 192, pl. 58 (arachne.dainst.org/entity/764995 and https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/details-photo/roman-civilization-3rd-century-a-d-marble-sarcophagus-with-apollo-playing-the-lyre-and-muse-with-the-trumpet-rome-galleria-borghese-archaeological-and-art/DAE-10369313).
Dr Joseph R. Little owned other antiquities, including a marine sarcophagus panel from Wilton House. He acquired it at auction in London in 1964 and sold it at Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, December 11th, 1976, no. 134. It is now in the collection of the Hood Museum at Dartmouth (S.977.21).
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