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Christie's is auctioning off antiquities from the collection of James and Marilynn Alsdorf ( https://www.christies.com/SaleLanding/index.aspx?intsaleid=28785&lid=1&saletitle=). Here are some of the more "...you bought that?" lots, starting with...this.
We are informed that this is a Roman bronze panther. Funny, I would have said a camel with constipation of unprovable origin but maybe that's just me. https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/ancient-art-antiquities/a-roman-bronze-panther-circa-2nd-3rd-century-6257700-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intobjectid=6257700
Here's a supposed Roman table leg, "based on" Lysippus' sculpture of Silenus cradling the infant Bacchus, preserved in a Roman marble copy in the Louvre. https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/ancient-art-antiquities/a-roman-marble-trapezophorus-with-silenus-and-6257707-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intobjectid=6257707
Sure, this is the same as that. No difference. They're both unholy middle-aged babies about to have their faces gnawed off.
Someone please buy this supposedly Roman horse so we can take it out behind the barn and put it out of its misery. He'll never run another race again with that leg, Timmy. https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/ancient-art-antiquities/a-roman-bronze-horse-circa-2nd-3rd-century-6257703-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intobjectid=6257703
Art student: "I'm so crap at carving faces."
Teacher: "Humm."
Student: "And hands? Forget it!"
Teacher: "Have you considered a career in antiquities forgery?"
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/ancient-art-antiquities/a-sumerian-limestone-standing-male-figure-early-6257685-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intobjectid=6257685
Teacher: "Humm."
Student: "And hands? Forget it!"
Teacher: "Have you considered a career in antiquities forgery?"
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/ancient-art-antiquities/a-sumerian-limestone-standing-male-figure-early-6257685-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intobjectid=6257685
This supposed Etruscan statue is NOT AMUSED.
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/ancient-art-antiquities/an-etruscan-bronze-balsamarium-circa-3rd-century-6257696-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intobjectid=6257696
(Also - Etruscan? That's not where I would have aimed the dart on the "pick a random attribution" board.)
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/ancient-art-antiquities/an-etruscan-bronze-balsamarium-circa-3rd-century-6257696-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intobjectid=6257696
(Also - Etruscan? That's not where I would have aimed the dart on the "pick a random attribution" board.)
