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Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
1ST CENTURY B.C.
2 1/2 - 4 1/8 in. (631 grams total, 6.3-10.5 cm).
Second style, painted in red, blue and cream and decorated in contrasting colours. [5, No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the 19th century.
Ex Jeger collection, Switzerland.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Hakanen, V., 'VI Wall Plaster Fragments' in Berg, R., Kuivalainen, I., Domus Pompeiana M. Lucretii, IX,3, 5.24, The inscriptions, Works of Art and Finds from the Old and New Excavations, Vantaa, 2019, pp.196-224, figs.3-4.
FOOTNOTES:
These small fragments, with analogies with the fragments from Pompeii, seem to belong to the second style of Roman painting, where several simpler walls had an entirely yellow socle or a yellow socle with a darker main zone (more common in the middle phase of the style).
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