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LOT 2164
Russian Icon with Mary and Child
19TH CENTURY A.D.
13 5/8 in. (873 grams, 34.5 cm).
Formed as an arched doorway with cross finial above, the tympanum embellished with low-relief fronds and flowering plants; scalloped finial below with fleurs-de-lys and flowering plant; both doors with lozengiform panels and studded centres; reverse of both door panels decorated with central quatrefoils within nail-head roundels, flowering plants growing above and below; central panel showing Madonna and Child in high-relief, archangels Michael and Gabriel to left and right, Greek legends 'MP', 'ΘY', 'ICYC'; raised legend 'Geschützt' to back of central panel; suspension loop to reverse. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired from Germany.
Property of a Swiss collector.
Property of a Californian, USA, collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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Bactrian Style Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace String
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Roman Style Silver Statuette of a Magistrate
20th century A.D. or earlierSold for (Inc. bp): £26
Standing erect with left hand extended gripping a scroll; wearing a full toga fastened at the waist and draped over the body; the head with short hair in the Julian style and a laurel wreath to the brow; after the antique; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 98 grams total, 93 mm 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. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
The statuette represents a city magistrate clad in a toga, the most famous 'official' civil dress of the Roman period between the first century B.C. and the first century A.D. The fully developed toga of Consular and Imperial Rome was shaped as a segment of a circle and about 18 and a half feet long by seven feet wide at its centre. It was decorated at times by a purple or red stripe along the straight edge. The type of garment of our statuette is similar to the one seen on the statue of Emperor Titus at the Vatican Museum.