Part IV: Une demeure princière, La résidence de son Altesse Cheikh Hamad Bin Abdullah Al Thani, Vente du jour

A Byzantine Mosaic Panel with Leaping Feline, circa 5th/6th Century A.D.

No reserve

Monumental ItemNo Reserves

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 EUR

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Description

A Byzantine Mosaic Panel with Leaping Feline, circa 5th/6th Century A.D.

depicting in multicolored tesserae a feline leaping to left, her couchant cub below, a tree at right.

100 by 100 cm.

Christie's, London, June 10th, 1969, no. 165

Formerly on loan to the Brooklyn Museum, inv. no. L69.39.4

Sotheby's, New York, December 10th 2009, no. 102

acquired by the present owner at the above sale

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