28th Apr, 2020 11:00

From the Curious to the Extraordinary

 
  Lot 102
 

AN 18TH CENTURY CARVED WOOD RELIEF PANEL DEPICTING FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

AN 18TH CENTURY CARVED WOOD RELIEF PANEL DEPICTING FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

the portrait of the historian with an oval border inscribed to the top 'FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS', raised on a brick-work shelf above an open book indistinctly inscribed and dated 1701, flanked by a flaming urn and a shield with Medusa,

25.5cm high

Titus Flavius Josephus, born Yosef ben Matityahu, was a first-century Romano Jewish historian who was born in Jerusalem.

Estimated at £80 - £120

 

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