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Property from the Collection of Axel Vervoordt

A Roman Marble Endymion Sarcophagus Fragment, mid 2nd/3rd Century A.D.

Lot Closed

July 5, 12:37 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Axel Vervoordt

A Roman Marble Endymion Sarcophagus Fragment

mid 2nd/3rd Century A.D


carved with a reclining figure of a youth, asleep with his legs crossed and covered with his mantle; no restorations.

Length 46 cm.

Sotheby's, London, December 9th, 1993, no. 180

English private collection, acquired in the early 1990s at the Olympia Art and Antiques Fair, London

Bonhams, London, October 26th, 2007, no. 175

English private collection

Bonhams, London, May 1st, 2013, no. 93

Galerie Chenel, Paris, acquired at the above sale

acquired from the above in 2018

See the figure of Endymion on a sarcophagus in Rome: https://arachne.dainst.org/entity/1098240.