Roman Marble Mosaic Panel

Preserving fifteen dolphins in a one-directional sinusoid, each dolphin with a dorsal fin, flippers and flukes; their bodies black, white and gray, on a cream background.

h. 133 x w. 213.4 cm

3rd-4th century AD

Marble

Provenance

Ex French private collection, purchased on the Swiss art market, Geneve, 1990
Christie's Antiquities Sale, New York, December 9, 2008, lot 183

Publications

M. Merrony, "Roman Mosaics" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p.117, fig. 5
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, p. 97

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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