CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE RELIEF
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
The obverse sculpted in high relief with two facing triton masks, both with deeply-recessed eyes beneath furrowed brows, angular noses and open mouths with thin lips, their voluminous and unruly wavy locks deeply drilled, overlapped by fanning fins, the younger to the left with a prominent cleft chin, the older to the right with a long full beard, both riding on the backs of dolphins amidst the waves; the reverse sculpted in shallow relief with a ketos moving to the right, its coiled writhing body with its finned tail in the air, gliding across the water, with a broad plain border
16 3/8 in. (41.6 cm.) long

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with Thomas Howard-Sneyd, London, 1990s.

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This panel, carved on both sides, was most likely part of a decorative scheme, placed on a pilaster in a Roman garden. Several examples have been found in Pompeii. See, for example, two from the House of the Gilded Cupids, nos. 74-75 in Mattusch, et al., Pompeii and the Roman Villa. For an example with a ketos on the reverse see no. L.2007.39 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.