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| ROMAN POLYCHROME MOSAIC PANEL: EROS SPEARING A SPOTTED PANTHER The animal leaping at him from the left. Behind the figures is an elaborate acanthus scroll. Richly colored stone and glass tesserae form the figures and scroll, while the background is rendered in black, gray and dark brown tesserae. Ex French Collection. Ca. 3rd-4th Century AD 49 1/4 in. x 21 1/2 in. (125 cm.) x (54.6 cm.) Art of the Ancient World, 2003, no. 14 Art of the Ancient World, 1995, no. 23 DPQ02 SOLD |
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| For mosaics with this so-called “peopled scolls” motif see D. Levi, Antioch Mosaic Pavements (1947), pl. 82d (House of the Ram’s Heads) and fragments from a similar mosaic in E. Simon, The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum, no. 180, pp. 275 ff. | |
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