ROMAN BRONZE CHARIOT FITTINGS PAIR WITH MALE BUSTS
Ca. 100-300 AD.
A pair of bronze chariot appliqués, each with a bust formed separately and mounted at the centre, each comprising a discoid body with domed inner ring decorated with concentric circles, busts modelled in the round presenting nude male figures, hollow from the neck down at the reverse, with semi-naturalistic detailing to the torsos, nipples, almond-shaped eyes, brows, noses, mouths and fleshy chins, hair arranged into short waves, rectangular slot to the back of each head for attachment; mounted on a custom-made display stand. Cf. The British Museum, museum number 1854,0717.53, for a comparable chariot fitting, dated c.1st century AD; s. also Gudea, N., Porolissum. Un complex arheologic daco-roman la marginea de nord a Imperiului roman. II. Vama romana (monografie arheologica"). Contributii la cunoasterea sistemului vamal din provinciile dacice Cluj-Napoca, 1996, p.180; Palagyi, T., Facsady, A., Romains de Hongrie, Lyon, 2002, nos.83-84.
Size: L:145mm / W:140mm ; 530g
Provenance: London art gallery; ex. property of a gentleman from Vienna, from his private collection formed since the 1970s.
Estimate: GBP 1500 - 3000