A Roman marble bull's head corner relief fragment

2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A Roman marble bull's head corner relief fragment
2nd Century A.D.
The head carved with large eyes and swirling circular forelock, remains of a deeply drilled garland emerging from the left horn, front of muzzle missing
20½ in. (52 cm.) long max.

拍品專文

Cf. C. C. Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America, University of California, 1981, p. 266, no. 224 for a complete statue base or grave altar with similar bull's heads and swags at the corners, Roman work in the East Greek style of the Hadrianic period.