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拍品專文
PUBLISHED:
E. Godet (et al), A Private Collection. A Catalogue of The Henri Smeets Collection, Weert, 1975, no. 239a.
H. Brunsting (ed.), Klassieke Kunst uit Particulier Bezit (exhibition cat.), Leiden, 1975, p. 93, no. 135.
Cf. a Roman marble altar dating to the 2nd century A.D. dedicated to the Egyptian gods, currently in the British Museum (acc. no. 1805,0703.212). As with the present lot, the Apis bull is shown without the sun-disc crown, which is almost omnipresent when the sacred beast is depicted in Egyptian art, but with the crescent moon on his flank, an attribute which sufficed to identify him to the Roman viewer. Indeed, Townley described the British Museum altar as 'ornamented on the four sides with Egyptian figures, composed in the Roman style of art’ (TY 12/3).
E. Godet (et al), A Private Collection. A Catalogue of The Henri Smeets Collection, Weert, 1975, no. 239a.
H. Brunsting (ed.), Klassieke Kunst uit Particulier Bezit (exhibition cat.), Leiden, 1975, p. 93, no. 135.
Cf. a Roman marble altar dating to the 2nd century A.D. dedicated to the Egyptian gods, currently in the British Museum (acc. no. 1805,0703.212). As with the present lot, the Apis bull is shown without the sun-disc crown, which is almost omnipresent when the sacred beast is depicted in Egyptian art, but with the crescent moon on his flank, an attribute which sufficed to identify him to the Roman viewer. Indeed, Townley described the British Museum altar as 'ornamented on the four sides with Egyptian figures, composed in the Roman style of art’ (TY 12/3).