LOT 0817 Roman Mount with Cupid Charioteer
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3rd-4th century AD. A bronze mount with the image of a winged Cupid (Greek Eros) driving a biga, a whip in his right hand, the horses galloping wildly; circus architecture in the background. See a marble sarcophagus with the Four Season referenced in relief, showing winged erotes driving chariots drawn by animals associated with the four seasons, in Metropolitan Museum of Art, Roman, Hadrianic or early Antonine, ca. A.D. 130–150, found at Capranica in 1889, accession no.90.12a, b. 75 grams, 67mm (2 1/2"). From a North Yorkshire collection formed since the 1980s; thence by descent. The scene is a mythological one, the representation of a race chariot is accentuated by the realism of the iconography of the carceres, i.e. the departing points of the charioteers in the arena. [No Reserve]
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