Jewellery, Watches, Antiquities and Objects of Vertu

A Roman bronze chariot or cart fitting, 2nd-3rd century AD., modelled as a bust of a young man dressed in a paludamentum - a cloak fastened with a circular clasp at the right shoulder, the head moulded in the round with long hair brushed forward, looking straight ahead with large lentoid eyes with silver inlaid pupils and closed mouth, the bust set on a decorated plinth with flaming torches at each side, and open at the back with semi circular attachments, the base showing the remains of an iron nail for attachment, height 13.5 cm, width 8.5cm. £2,400-£2,800

Ex Gorny & Mosch auction 218, 18/12/2013, lot 304.