BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
A ROMAN MARBLE BUST OF SARAPIS, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
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July 9, 01:30 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A ROMAN MARBLE BUST OF SARAPIS, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
the bust resting on an integral globe and circular profiled socle, a himation falling over his chiton from his left shoulder, his face with full centrally divided beard and eyes with drilled pupils, his long hair falling in voluted curls over the forehead and nape of the neck and formerly surmounted by a separately-carved modius, the pupils drilled; no restorations.
Height 34 cm.
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the number 843 is neatly painted in gold on the back support in an early to mid 20th-century hand
Joel Malter, Los Angeles, 1994
Antiqua, Los Angeles, 1995 (Catalogue II, no. 64)
Christie's, New York, December 18th, 1996, no. 137, illus.
Christie’s, New York, December 11th, 2014, no. 150, illus.
For a related example see W. Hornbostel, Sarapis, 1973, p. 260, note 4, fig. 248 (Sotheby’s & Co., London, November 11th, 1963, no. 155, illus.: https://iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.uk/vpc/VPC_search/record.php?record=25110)