A ROMAN ALABASTER CINERARIUM

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

细节

A ROMAN ALABASTER CINERARIUM
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
The profiled foot, ovoid body, domed lid and piriform finial each separately sculpted, the body with twin voluted handles rising from leaf shaped handle-plates and merging with the flaring disk rim, the domed lid with two incised bands
19¾ in. (50.2 cm.) high

来源

Eichberg Collection (d. 1953); Zürichsee Auktionen, Zurich, 10 April 2003.

拍品专文

For a related alabaster urn from the via Laurentina, Rome, see no. 149 in Giuliano, ed., Museo Nazionale Romano, Le Sculture, I,1. For a similar example from Leptis Magna, see no. 22 in The Desert Is Not Silent.