FULCRUM: TÊTE DE MULE, BRONZE, ART ROMAIN, CIRCA IER-IIE S. AP. J.-C.
FULCRUM: TÊTE DE MULE, BRONZE, ART ROMAIN, CIRCA IER-IIE S. AP. J.-C.
A ROMAN BRONZE MULE HEAD FULCRUM, CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D., the head turned to its left with short mane, 6.5cm high, 14.5cm wide, 8cm deep
Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Collin du Bocage, Paris, 11 June 2014, lot 29.
This attachment was once the end of a fulcra, or head-board, of a Roman reclining couch (klinai). Often depicting a horse or a hound, the two most important domesticated animals in ancient Rome, these ornaments were naturalistically and sensitively modelled. Cf. an example from the George Ortiz collection reproduced in D.G. Mitten & S.F. Doeringer, Master Bronzes from the Classical World, Mainz, 1968, no. 147.
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FULCRUM: TÊTE DE MULE, BRONZE, ART ROMAIN, CIRCA IER-IIE S. AP. J.-C.
A ROMAN BRONZE MULE HEAD FULCRUM, CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D., the head turned to its left with short mane, 6.5cm high, 14.5cm wide, 8cm deep
Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Collin du Bocage, Paris, 11 June 2014, lot 29.
This attachment was once the end of a fulcra, or head-board, of a Roman reclining couch (klinai). Often depicting a horse or a hound, the two most important domesticated animals in ancient Rome, these ornaments were naturalistically and sensitively modelled. Cf. an example from the George Ortiz collection reproduced in D.G. Mitten & S.F. Doeringer, Master Bronzes from the Classical World, Mainz, 1968, no. 147.
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