ROMAN WATER SPOUT IN THE FORM OF A MASK 1st-2nd Century AD
Sale 5146 - The Jeff Hunter Collection | Antiquities and Tribal Art
Mar 13, 2019
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$4,000 -
6,000
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$11,875
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ROMAN WATER SPOUT IN THE FORM OF A MASK 1st-2nd Century AD
Cast bronze, the face in the shape of a comic actor's mask, with recessed eyes and protruding megaphone-like mouth, the hair combed and falling to the sides, raised on a bespoke bronze mount.
H: 8.2, W: 5.25 in. (mounted).Provenance: with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 2000, inventory number DBE12, (copy of the original purchase invoice to be included).
The Jeff Hunter Collection, New York.
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