Property from a Swiss Private Collection
An Attic Double-sided Marble Anthemion, 3rd Quarter of 4th Century B.C.
This lot has been withdrawn
Lot Details
Description
carved in high relief with twin fluted acanthus fronds both emerging from a two-tiered three-leaf calyx and once terminating in addorsed volutes, with half palmettes above once flanking a small rosette, the reverse roughly carved as a duplicate of the observe and in shallower relief.
Height 86 cm.
private collection, Switzerland, acquired in the early 1980s on the German art market
by descent to the present owner
Published
Brigitte Freyer-Schauenburg, "Doppelseitige Anthemien," in: Benedetta Adembri, ed., Aei mnēstos. Miscellanea di studi per Mauro Cristofani, vol. 1, Firenze, 2005, pp. 124-133, figs. 1-2
The present lot belongs to a small group of anthemia carved on both sides (for the other known examples see Freyer-Schauenburg, op. cit.).
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