Lot Essay
For a tigress and her cubs on a hunt mosaic centered by a bust of Megalopsychia from Antioch, see pp. 252-253 in Cimok, ed., Antioch Mosaics.
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THE PROPERTY OF A MIAMI PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A LATE ROMAN MARBLE MOSAIC PANEL
CIRCA 4TH-5TH CENTURY A.D.
Details
A LATE ROMAN MARBLE MOSAIC PANEL
CIRCA 4TH-5TH CENTURY A.D.
The multicolored composition on a white ground, preserving a tigress and her cubs, the mother facing left, her right forepaw raised, her claws indicated, her head turned out to her left, with wide eyes intensely gazing outward, wearing a pink and white collar, her tail wrapped around her hind legs, with two cubs nursing from her pink teats, a third to her left walking towards its siblings, gazing upward at its mother with its mouth open, four pink flowers in the field
56 in. (142.3 cm.) x 44 in. (111.8 cm.)
CIRCA 4TH-5TH CENTURY A.D.
The multicolored composition on a white ground, preserving a tigress and her cubs, the mother facing left, her right forepaw raised, her claws indicated, her head turned out to her left, with wide eyes intensely gazing outward, wearing a pink and white collar, her tail wrapped around her hind legs, with two cubs nursing from her pink teats, a third to her left walking towards its siblings, gazing upward at its mother with its mouth open, four pink flowers in the field
56 in. (142.3 cm.) x 44 in. (111.8 cm.)
Provenance
Private Collection, South America, 1961.
Brought to you by
Molly Morse Limmer
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