Transenna Panel
20th Century?
Artists
Description
Relatively thin marble panel decorated in relief with a central medallion. Medallion contains a stylized lion, his right paw extended, standing over the narrow trunk of a tree. Various tree limbs with foliage extend upward, outward, and downward from the front of him.
Dimensions
actual: 62.7 x 64.4 x 21 cm (24 11/16 x 25 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Unknown, previously of the Kevorkian Collection, the Joseph Brummer Collection, and the Luigi Grassi Collection in Florence.
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