A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN

Lot 14
04.12.2024 15:30UTC +00:00
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£ 30 000
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ID 1334757
Lot 14 | A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN
CIRCA LATE 1ST-EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.; WITH 18TH CENTURY RESTORATIONS ATTRIBUTED TO BARTOLOMEO CAVACEPPI (1716-1799)
10 ¼ x 10 ¼ x 7 in. (26 x 26 x 18 cm.)




Provenance

with Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (1716-1799), Rome.
with Thomas Jenkins (1722-1798), Rome, acquired by 1778.
Probably Giovanni Ludovico Bianconi (1717-1781), Bologna.
Museo Bianconi, Bologna, by 1874.
with Giuseppe Pacini, Florence, by 1882.
French private collection, Marseille, acquired in the 1970s.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 3 June 2015, lot 56.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2016.



Literature

L. G. Marini (1742-1815), Inscriptiones christianæ Latinæ et Græcæ ævi Milliarii conlegit digessit adnotationibusque auxit Caietanus Marinus a Bibliotheca Vaticana item a scriniis sedis apostolicæ. Duæ partes (Vat.lat.9122), fol. 9r.
G. Piranesi, Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati, Rome, vol. 2, 1778, pl. 89.
W. Henzen, G. B. de Rossi and C. Hülsen, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. VI, part V: Inscriptiones falsas urbi Romae attributas comprehendens, Berlin, 1885, p. 242, no. 3495.
E. Bormann, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. XI, part I: Inscriptiones Aemiliae, Etruriae, Umbriae Latinae, Berlin, 1888, p. 19, no. 107.
T. Ashby, “Thomas Jenkins in Rome,” in Papers of the British School in Rome, vol. VI, no. 8, 1913, p. 493.
M. Squire, J. Cahill and R. Allen, eds., The Classical Now, London, 2018, pp. 170-171.



Exhibited

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2016-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA842).
London, Somerset House, The Classical Now, 2 March-28 April 2018.
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