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5645
Medieval Show
Disarming Spanish Wooden Heraldic Dragon's Head
With a unicorn’s horn and vegetal “leaf” ears.
Red and white polychrome, traces of gilding over ochre clay sizing.
ex: European private collection. Belgian market by 2018.
5793
Hellenistic Show
Excellent Hellenistic Greek Bronze Fulcrum
with a horse head terminal. The arm or headrest to an elaborate kline (bed, or couch), the terminal decorated with an expertly rendered horse head, a scarf about the animal’s neck decorated as a lioness confronting a hare. Eyes inlaid with silver, traces of original silvering throughout, particularly on the mane.
Ex: private New York estate collection (previously New York market, 1991); thence by descent.
9766
Roman Show
Important Imperial Roman Cast-Bronze Figure of Mithras Performing the Tauroctony
Mithras would have held the bull steady with his right hand, while preparing to plunge a sword into the beast with his raised left hand. He appears nude, save the chlamys draped over his left arm, and his Phrygian cap, indicative of his Eastern origins. Closer inspection of Mithras’ cap reveal it is covered with incised stars. Further, a socket at the top would have accommodated an attribute, likely a crescent moon. Long misattributed as figures of the Dioscuri, Mars or Perseus, sculptures of Mithras, stars literally wrapped about his head, served to accommodate a complex, decidedly anti-Classical iconographic program within the established and traditional Classical idiom of sculpture in the round.
ex: European private collection, 1980s or earlier. More recently, a London private collection, 2005-2008. Then, an American collection, 2008-2022.
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