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LOT 0942
Roman Redware Vessel Sherd with Centaur Scene
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.
3 3/4 in. (85 grams, 95 mm).
Fragment of a vessel with rouletting and corrugations, low-relief frieze depicting a small child led by the hand by an advancing figure in a large cloak, towards a centaur holding a staff; rosettes in the field and band of pellets below; old collector's label to reverse 'Young Achilles with his mother, Thetis, taken to centaur Chiron to school'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
LiteratureCf. May, T., The Pottery found at Silchester, Silchester, 1916, plate II, fig. 1, for a similar image of a centaur on Roman pottery; Cameron, A., ‘Young Achilles in the Roman World’ in The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 99 (2009), pp. 1-22, fig. 2, for an identical scene on a Terra Sigillata from North Africa.
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LOT 0942
Roman Redware Vessel Sherd with Centaur Scene
Estimate £60 - 80€70 - 93 (for guidance only)$81 - 108 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Opening Bid: £80
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Opening Bid: £700
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Opening Bid: £50
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Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
