A ROMAN POLYCHROME WALL-PAINTING FRAGMENT
A ROMAN POLYCHROME WALL-PAINTING FRAGMENT

CIRCA EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN POLYCHROME WALL-PAINTING FRAGMENT
CIRCA EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Preserving a dancing maenad facing right, her drapery billowing around her lower body and draped over both arms, her torso and breasts bare, her hair bound in a foliate wreath, holding a beribboned cymbal in each hand, on a red ground
18 7/8 x 14 1/8 in. (48 x 36 cm.) excl. frame
Provenance
Private collection, Switzerland, 1980s.
with Nina Borowski, Geneva, from whom acquired by the present owner in 1994.

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