Sale 7183
London
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18 October 2005
Price realised
GBP 2,400
Estimate
A ROMAN MARBLE SARCOPHAGUS FRAGMENT 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D. Depicting Terpsichore, the muse of music and dance, facing right with lyre in her left arm, her hair drawn back into chignon and with fillet with upright plumes at the front, mounted 15 1/8 x 11½ in. (38.5 x 29.3 cm.)
Provenance
English private collection.
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