Master Sculpture from Four Millennia

Master Sculpture from Four Millennia

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Property of a European Private Collector

A Monumental Italian Marble Head of a Deity, after the Antique, 2nd half of the 17th Century

VAT reduced rateUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Auction Closed

July 3, 02:32 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A Monumental Italian Marble Head of a Deity

after the Antique, 2nd half of the 17th Century


with centrally parted hair tied in a chignon above the nape of neck and escaping in long strands over the shoulders, the neck carved for insertion into a statue.

Height 55 cm.

private collection, Switzerland, acquired in the early 1980s

by descent from the above to the present owner

 

Published

Martin Flashar, Apollon Kitharodos, Cologne, 1992, pp. 56 and 134, figs. 106ff. (as ancient)


Exhibited

on loan to the Antikenmuseum Basel, 1982-2024 (on view in the 1980s and 90s), as ancient

The present head appears to be by the same restorer who carved the replacement head of an ancient draped female statue in the Palazzo Spada: https://arachne.dainst.org/entity/1089110. This points to a date in the 2nd half of the 17th century, since most of the sculptures in the palazzo were assembled by Cardinal Bernardino Spada, who died in 1661: see S. Kansteiner, Pseudoantike Skulptur II, 2017, p. 28.

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