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LOT 2454

Gandharan Schist Frieze Fragment

2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D. OR LATER

14 1/2 in. (13.3 kg, 37 cm wide).

Carved corbel or column fragment with scrolled foliage to three faces and socket to upper face to accept a statue; three youthful figures - two females flanking a larger male - each wearing the hair dressed in a topknot, with radiating sunburst behind them and below a team of two horses galloping left with empty saddles and their reins flung back towards the central character, probably a charioteer.

Provenance

London, UK, collection, 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

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LOT 2454

Gandharan Schist Frieze Fragment

Sold for (Inc. bp): £286

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