AN EASTERN IMPERIAL ROMAN BANDED ALABASTER TRAPEZOPHORUS OF THE HEAD OF A MALE LION

A support for a console table.

2nd Century AD

Height: 51.6 cm.     (20 5/16 in.)

Width: 26 cm.     (10 1/4 in.)

Depth: 28 cm.     (11  in.)

Ex: American private collection, acquired on the Israeli market 1977, thence by descent.

#5821

Published:

Antiquarium; Ancient Treasures XX. (London, 2022) back cover, p.50

Comparandum:

Comstock, Mary & Cornelius Vermeule; Sculpture in Stone. The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Boston, 1976) p.198, fig. 317