Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
Lot 145*
A Roman bronze stool
3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,312.50 inc. premium
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Siobhan Quin
Senior Specialist
A Roman bronze stool
Circa 1st Century A.D.
The circular seat with central depression and down-turned rim, set on a separately-made hexapod base, with an openwork strut with wave pattern, the legs with square finials set on rounded feet, 28.6cm high
Circa 1st Century A.D.
The circular seat with central depression and down-turned rim, set on a separately-made hexapod base, with an openwork strut with wave pattern, the legs with square finials set on rounded feet, 28.6cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
with Merrin Gallery, New York.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above in November 1991.
Bronze stools of a similar size have been discovered in Pompeii in the Houses of Ephebus and Fabius Rufus, see L'Erma di Bretschneider, Rediscovering Pompeii, Rome, 1992, nos. 56-57, and another in the British Museum, London, inv. no. 1856,1226.667, which shares the present lot's openwork wave decoration.