Live Auction 6454Michael Inchbald: A Legacy of Design
A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN
Lot 102

A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN

CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

Closed22 January 2014

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A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
On flaring foot, with strigillation around the body and fluted handles
15 ¼ in. (38.7 cm.) high

Purchased by Michael Inchbald from Mallett & Son Antiques, London, 16 September 1985.

Specialist note

For similar strigillated urns cf. B. Palma, I Marmi Ludovisi, Storia della Collezione, Museo Nazionale Romano, Le Sculture, vol. IV, Rome, 1983, figs 111-2.