Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
07-08 July 1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/601
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    63 64 66 67 68 69 ~I lo 73 9 First Day An ancient terra-cotta Wall Tile, from an interior frieze, Roman, I cent. a.v., 154 in. by 11% in., with design in relief of husbandmen gathering grapes [Pl. 1] ] A MARBLE STATUETTE OF PAN, STANDING, the god wears a goatskin drapery, which only conceals a portion of the body, his pan-pipes hang from a tree-trunk to left, 182 iz. high, Roman; Harland-Peck collection 1 A Memorial Tablet, in marble, with incised inscription relating to BARBIVS THEOPHILVS, Roman, in oak frame 1 A marble Alto-relievo, with heads of Apollo and Zeus on one side and head of a satyr on the other, 124 in. long by 94 in. high, Greek, III to IT cent. B.c. ; from the yee tine collection | PI. i] A Greek bronze Strigil or Bath Seraper, with gracefully curved blade and re-curved handle, 9 in. long; and another, Greco-Roman, 8 in. long 2 A Greco-Egyptian bronze Mirror, with plain handle, 74 tn. long ; and three bronze Armillae, one broken 4 A bronze snake-shaped Armilla; another, with ribbed deco- 5 olan ja third, plain; and a large bronze Fibula, 54 in. long, Evans Bection: Found at Minster 4 A small Roman silvered Mirror, 32 in. diam. by 64% in. long, Kennedy collection; aud a heavy bronze ae nills, ter- minating In (2%) lions’ heads 2 A bronze Etruscan Mirror, with ornamental handle terminating in an animal’s head ; the mirror is engraved with a design of four human figures, surrounded by a floral band 1 A silver Armilla of serpentine form, Greek; aud another, bronze, of seven coils, the ends terminating in large blobs 2 A large Roman Fibula, in bronze, of slender proportions, 5% 7. long; and a taitde Chain of Pexelvo links, the two terminal links, 44 in. diam., the intervening one, 24 in. diam., ap- parently a Roman prisoner’s chain 2 A British Torque, in bronze, 65 in. diam.; a heavy bronze Roman Weight of circular form, 2% 7m. diam., the flat surface surmounted by a bronze head of Cupid; and a bronze Roman Lamp, of elegant form and nicely patinated 3
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