Lot 71
71
A ROMAN MARBLE SARCOPHAGUS FRAGMENT
THE PROPERTY OF A WEST COAST PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A ROMAN MARBLE SARCOPHAGUS FRAGMENT

CIRCA LATE 2ND-EARLY 3RD CENTURY A.D.

Details
A ROMAN MARBLE SARCOPHAGUS FRAGMENT
CIRCA LATE 2ND-EARLY 3RD CENTURY A.D.
15 in. (38.1 cm.) wide
Provenance
with Georges Gallery, Melbourne.
Private Collection, Australia, acquired from the above, 1982.
Property from an Australian Collection; Antiquities, Christie’s, New York, 12 December 2002, lot 251.

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Lot Essay

From the end of a strigulated sarcophagus, this fragment features a standing youth, likely a Season, depicted nude but for a mantle draped diagonally across his chest, balancing a kalathos in his upturned left palm. A similar composition can be seen on the Seasons sarcophagus in New York, no. 17 in A.M. McCann, Roman Sarcophagi in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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