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LOT 0733
Romano-British 'St Albans' Painted Fresco Wall Plaster Fragment Collection
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 - 2 in. (70 grams total, 36-51 mm).
With painted stripe, swirl and other motifs, supplied with old collector's record card 'Roman Wall Plaster / 4 pieces of painted wall plaster. From St. Albans'. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.
From the collection of a late East Anglian teacher and antiquarian who retired to the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, UK.
He amassed a large collection of objects between the 1960s-1980s.
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LOT 0733
Romano-British 'St Albans' Painted Fresco Wall Plaster Fragment Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Modelled in the round, Eos (The Dawn) standing nude with left leg slightly flexed; the head with finely detailed face and hair dressed in a chignon; spread wings to the rear with feather detailing; left arm bent and hand resting on the hip with mantle wound about the shoulder and wrist; right arm extended and hand modelled open to accept an attribute; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 150 grams total, 11.2 cm including stand
From 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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UK private collection before 2000. On the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. -
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