Lot 191
191
THE 'MARBURY HALL' ROMAN ALTAR, marble, of cylindrical form and finely carved with figures of three Erotes holding fruit and foliate garlands, within which are a head of Medusa, theatrical mask and a shield inscription which reads: APOLLONI SACRUM, around the stepped base are bands of leaf and guilloche pattern, the separate upper part is carved with bands of tongue and egg and dart, altar Roman, 1st Century A.D., upper part 18th Century

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THE 'MARBURY HALL' ROMAN ALTAR, marble, of cylindrical form and finely carved with figures of three Erotes holding fruit and foliate garlands, within which are a head of Medusa, theatrical mask and a shield inscription which reads: APOLLONI SACRUM, around the stepped base are bands of leaf and guilloche pattern, the separate upper part is carved with bands of tongue and egg and dart, altar Roman, 1st Century A.D., upper part 18th Century
Condition: minor chips
35¼in. (89.5cm.) high, 24 7/8in. (63.3cm.) diam.
Provenance
Marbury Hall, Cheshire
Sold, Christie's, 10 July 1987, lot 2

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
A. Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, Cambridge, 1882, p. 42; C. C. Vermeule and D. von Bothmer, Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, Part I and II, American Joural of Archaeology, vol. 60, 1956, p. 336-7

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