A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN

Lot 15
07.07.2022 17:00UTC +00:00
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£ 200 000
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ID 791813
Lot 15 | A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN
Estimate value
£ 200 000 – 300 000
A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

27 1⁄2 in. (70 cm.) high





Provenance

Thomas Hope (1769-1831), London and the Deepdene, Surrey,

Thence by descent to Lord Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope (1866-1941), the Deepdene.

The Celebrated Collection of Greek, Roman and Egyptian Sculpture and Ancient Vases being a portion of The Hope Heirlooms; Christie's, London, 23-24 July 1917, lot 209, pl. VII.

Bought by Colnaghi’s at the above sale for 240 gns (£252, the top price paid for a cinerary urn or vase).

Anton Wilhelmus Mari Mensing (1866-1936) collection, Amsterdam.

With Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 9 October 1940.

Italian private collection, acquired from the above.

Arachne database no: 50083.



Literature

Hope Marbles, (a folio volume held at the Victoria and Albert Museum Library, London, undated) pl. 28, no. 2.

Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbrooke, unpublished engravings of the collection (re-used as the engravings for the Hope Marbles) c. 1810-1813.

H. Moses, A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Paterae, Tripods, Candelabra, Sarcophagi etc., from various museums and collections, 1814, pl. 33.

J. Britton, Manuscript list of contents of Deepdene, unpublished handwritten manuscript, c. 1841, now at the Yale Centre for Studies in British Art.

G.B. Waywell, The Lever and Hope Sculptures, Berlin, 1986, pp. 107-108, fig. 33, no. 91.



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