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LOT 0697
Roman Fresco Wall Plaster Collection
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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