A Roman mosaic fragmentary section

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A Roman mosaic fragmentary section
Depicting a stylised dolphin and twin handled amphora, within an oak frame applied with a handscribed paper label
21½ x 25½in. (54 x 65cm.)

來源

Possibly acquired by Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (d. 1894), Great Tew Park, Oxfordshire and by descent to Major Eustace Robb, sold Christie's House Sale, 28-29 May 1987, lot 72.

注意事項

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拍品專文

This framed fragment is from an apse of a Romano-British mosaic pavement 2nd-4th century. It is possible that this section of English mosaic pavement of the Roman period may have been acquired by Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (d. 1894), who is also likely to have had a table made to display an Italian mosaic table-top bearing the date 1847 (see Christie's House Sale, Great Tew Park, 27-29 May 1987, lot 201).