Roman

The Stowe Rosso Antico Obelisco della Minerva. Roman, c. 1800. Rosso antico marble. Height: 73.5 cm. Asking price: in the region of £40,000. Tomasso Brothers Fine Art.  LONDON.- London Art Week, 4 to 11 July 2014, a week-long celebration of paintings, drawings and sculpture in Mayfair and St James’s, has proved to be a winning formula with dealers reporting significant sales and important international visitors.  Many of the dealers staged special exhibitions and Tomasso Brothers Fine Art brought the Grand Tour to town,... [Lire la suite]

Porphyry vessel with bearded masks. Roman, Early Imperial, 1st‒early 2nd century A.D. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Acquisitions Fund, The Jaharis Family Foundation Inc. Gift, Philippe de Montebello Fund, Philodoroi and Renée E. and Robert A. Belfer Gifts, The Bothmer Purchase Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran, Nicholas S. Zoullas, Patricia and Marietta Fried, Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, Aso O. Tavitian, Leon Levy Foundation, and Barbara and Donald Tober Gifts, 2014 (2014.215). Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of... [Lire la suite]

  Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Study (tronie) of an Old Man, c. 1615-1618. Oil on panel, 48 x 37.5 cm. The Weiss Gallery. LONDON -  London Art Week (LAW), launched last year, is the platform that unites Master Drawings and Sculpture Week and Master Paintings Week. This collaboration, which proved so successful in 2013 resulting in major sales, brings together some fifty specialist dealers across the fine art disciplines and three major London auction houses. London Art Week illustrates the... [Lire la suite]

Unknown, Pair of figurative 'Lucernae' or oil lamps, depicting Achelous, Roman, 2nd century A.D. Photo courtesy Axel Vervoordt Bronze; 30 x 31 x 32 cm Provenance: Private collection M.P., Nashville, Tennessee, since 2003;Acquired on the American art market. Axel Vervoordt (stand 424) at TEFAF 2014. 14-23 march 2014 - http://www.tefaf.com/

Aphrodite Ourania Monumental female statue standing on a Swan, Roman, 1st - 2nd century A.D. Photo courtesy Axel Vervoordt Marble.Measurements: 115 x 65 x 55 cm Provenance: Sir Daniel Donohue collection, California, before 1968. The collection was begun by the oil and cement tycoon Daniel Murphy in the nineteenth century and inherited by his daughter and son-in-law, Sir Daniel Donohue and Countess Bernardine, who continued to add to the family collection.The sculpture comes accompanied by a copy of a photograph of the figure in... [Lire la suite]

Aphrodite of the Gardens, 1st century A.D., Roman. Photo courtesy Axel Vervoordt Provenance: French private collection, acquired c. 1980; Bought from Jean-Philippe Mariaud de Serres, Paris. Condition: With a superb original archaeological patina and calcification. Since the late ‘60s, Axel Vervoordt acquired a strong reputation as an antique dealer and art connoisseur. This family-run business, based in Kanaal, near Antwerp in Belgium, has grown into an international company dealing in art and antiques, interior design... [Lire la suite]

Statue of Asklepios, Second century AD, Roman. Photo courtesy Ariadne Galleries  Acquired by Alexander Iolas, in New York and Paris, between 1950 and 1965; Acquired in Paris; European Private Collection, 1980-1982; Ophiuchus Collection, 1982-2013 Published and Exhibited: Vogue, 1982 Classical Antiquities from Private Collections in Great Britain. A Loan Exhibition in Aid of the Ashmole Archive, Sotheby(January 15th-31st 1986) Hydria with Nike, Fifth century BC, Greek. Photo courtesy Ariadne... [Lire la suite]

Roman face helmet. 15 B.C. Nijmegen Museum. Netherlands.

Ludovisi Ares, Roman after the Greek original from ca. 320 BC. Some restorations were made to the sculpture by Gianlorenzo Bernini in 1622.  This remarkable sculpture was rediscovered in 1622, on the site which was once apparently the temple of Mars, of which very few traces remain today. It was recovered near the more distinguishable site of the church of San Salvatore in Campo, which Pietro Santi Bartoli recorded as been found during the digging of a drain.

A pair of Gold and Glass ear Pendants. Gold and glass. Hellenistic, 3rd - 1st Century BC. L. 3.1 cm. © 2013 BADER ANCIENT ART Photo ©CLAUDIO BADER These delicate and wearable ear pendants consist of a gold shield disc that is centered with a rosette. The shield’s border is adorned with fine beaded wire. Below a gold wire pendant holds a green glass pearl. Both are intact and remain in an excellent state of preservation. Price CHF 3,800.00Provenance: Private collection Switzerland. Previously American private collection 1990’s.... [Lire la suite]