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LOT 0746
Roman Bronze Coin Hoard Group
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.
2 3/8 in. (90 grams total, 60 mm high including stand).
Group of Roman bronze coins fused in place; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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Roman Marble Head of a Young Man
2nd-3rd century A.D.Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,000
Worked in high-relief with hairstyle typical of the transitional period from the Consulate to the Empire; oval face with a prominent forehead, oval eyelids and clearly defined lines around the eyes; hair arranged in vertical lines combed back from the forehead; pronounced lips, typical rendering of the wide auricles; the lower part of the tunic visible with a well defined round edge around the neck; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 5.94 kg total, 22.5 cm high including stand
Acquired from Gallery Gryphos, Munich, 1992. European private collection. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11996-211878.
The head was probably pertinent to a series of funerary family portraits. It has realistic modelling of male features, which speaks of a portrait in reduced dimensions or a reference to a well-known person in the environment where it was exhibited. The portrait is worked only on the front, leaving the back, as well as the lower part of the sculpture, roughly treated. -
Roman Bronze Looped Figural Pendant with Phallus
Circa 1st century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Composed of three concentric circles surmounted by a bearded figure to which is attached a suspension ring, the body of the figure engraved and ending with phallic attributes. 53 grams, 83 mm
Acquired before 2000. From the collection of a European gentleman living in the UK.
Roman military harness included pendants of various typology, ranging from lunules to other decorative elements, often phallic, with the possible intention of protecting the animal. This particular pendant could be connected to the bearded image of the god Priapus. -
Roman Erotic Leda and the Swan Terracotta Oil Lamp
Circa 1st-2nd century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
With a long canal nozzle with volutes, discus with one filling hole and three concentric lines enclosing a central scene of Leda and the swan, softly rendered anatomical details and carefully modelled plumage; two old stickers to base. 74 grams, 11.7 cm
From the collection of Arno Jumpertz, Leverkusen, Germany, 1924-1984; much of the collection was exhibited at the Neus Museum, 1985. Accompanied by a previous catalogue information slip.
The lamp's style refers to the Loeschcke type I, a style popular during the Augustan and Imperial times.
