Sarcophagus for an Infant with Two Cupids Holding a Shield
This small sarcophagus, likely for an infant or toddler, depicts two flying cupids or erotes holding a round shield. Two panthers crouch below the outstretched arms of the cupids. On one end is the carved representation of overlapping shields and spears. The top is missing. Sa...
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Clemente Maraini, Rome, by 1885, by excavation [said to have been excavated from the so-called Licinian tomb, Rome, 1884]; sale, Pio Marinangeli and Massimiliano Pirani, Rome, by 1892. Don Marcello Massarenti, Rome, by 1894, by purchase [marble no. 8]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1931, by bequest; Museum deaccession, 1991; Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, European Works of Art, Arms and Armour, Furniture and Tapestries, 13–15 January 1992, lot 381; Private collection, Maryland, 1992, by purchase; Sale, Christie’s, New York, Antiquities, 11 April 2022, lot 110; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 2022, by purchase.
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en
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