Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Animals, 1981, I, no. 196.
Animals, 1981, I, no. 196.
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LATE 5TH-EARLY 6TH CENTURY A.D.
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A LATE ROMAN/EARLY BYZANTINE MOSAIC FRAGMENT OF A BIRD
LATE 5TH-EARLY 6TH CENTURY A.D.
Depicting a partridge or goose pecking at a bunch of grapes, in polychrome on white ground, mounted
20 x 14 in. (50.6 x 35.5 cm.) approx.
LATE 5TH-EARLY 6TH CENTURY A.D.
Depicting a partridge or goose pecking at a bunch of grapes, in polychrome on white ground, mounted
20 x 14 in. (50.6 x 35.5 cm.) approx.
Provenance
Sold Christie's London, 14 June 1978, part lot 265: "believed to have come from excavations carried out near Antioch, 1956, under the supervision of the American Archaeological School and the University of Chicago."
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