Lot Essay
For a related floral plaque see fig. 56a in Marangdou, Bone Carvings from Egypt 1. Graeco-Roman Period.
.jpg?w=1)
EGYPT, CIRCA 2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
Details
TWO ROMAN BONE OBJECTS
Egypt, Circa 2nd-4th Century A.D.
Both likely furniture attachments, including a fragmentary plaque with a bearded figure standing under an archway, with a mantle draped across his waist and over his left shoulder leaving his torso nude, gripping the drapery in his left hand, his hair and beard both a mass of thick curls, his large eyes deeply set; and a floral plaque depicting a continuously-spiraling floral pattern framed by a thin border at the top and bottom, with perforations for attachment
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm) long for the first (2)
Egypt, Circa 2nd-4th Century A.D.
Both likely furniture attachments, including a fragmentary plaque with a bearded figure standing under an archway, with a mantle draped across his waist and over his left shoulder leaving his torso nude, gripping the drapery in his left hand, his hair and beard both a mass of thick curls, his large eyes deeply set; and a floral plaque depicting a continuously-spiraling floral pattern framed by a thin border at the top and bottom, with perforations for attachment
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm) long for the first (2)