A Marble Statue of a Lion, ca. 400–390 BCE
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$9,500This lot was passed — it did not meet its reserve.
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Rafael Ortiz-Bennett
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Catalogue note
Marble, Parian 2. H. 31 1/4 in. (79.4 cm) length 63 1/2 in. (161.3 cm). Dated ca. 400–390 BCE in the collection record.
No independent ownership history accompanies this lot. What The Metropolitan Museum of Art records of its own acquisition is given under Provenance below, and nothing beyond it is asserted.
Offered under our antiquities terms. The description follows the holding institution's published record, and responsibility for any export or import licence rests with the buyer. Catalogue data for this lot is drawn from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's open-access collections record (CC0 1.0).
Provenance
Not independently established for this sale. The Metropolitan Museum of Art records its own acquisition as: Purchase, Rogers Fund, and James Loeb and Anonymous Gifts, 1909.
Condition
Good
Honest wear throughout. Structurally sound and complete.
Condition reports are the house’s opinion, offered in good faith. Lots are sold as viewed; the absence of a remark does not imply the absence of a fault.
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Terms of sale
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- 10% of the hammer price, added to your invoice.
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Catalogue record
This lot describes a real object held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose collection data is published for open access. The object is not for sale; it stands in here so the saleroom can be demonstrated against genuine catalogue records rather than invented ones.
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