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A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF CYBELE OR TYCHE

Lot 25
07.12.2023 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1076512
Lot 25 | A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF CYBELE OR TYCHE
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£ 150 000 – 250 000
A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF CYBELE OR TYCHE

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D., MOUNTED ON A 17TH CENTURY BUST

Total height with socle 32 ½ in. (82.5 cm.)

Height of head 10 ½ in. (26.7 cm.)





Provenance

Pope Urban VIII (born Maffeo Barberini 1568- 1644), Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, Rome.

Thence by descent to his nephew, Cardinal Antonio Barberini (1607-1671), Palazzo Barberini, Rome.

Thence by descent to his nephew, Cardinal Carlo Barberini (1630-1704), Casino al Bastione and Villa de Bastioni, Rome.

Thence by descent to his brother, Prince Maffeo Sciarra (1631-1685), Rome.

Thence by continuous descent to Prince Maffeo Sciarra (d.1849), Palazzo Sciarra, Rome, acquired by inheritance, 1810-1811.

Thence by descent to Princess Caroline Sciarra (born D'Andrea Dei Marchesi di Pesopagno, d. 1913), Palazzo Sciarra.

Thence by continuous descent within the family.

Property of European Private Collector; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 7 June 2007, lot 71.

with Rupert Wace Ancient Art, London.

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2009.



Literature

Recorded in a 1644 inventory of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, no. 663.

Recorded in a 1663 inventory of Cardinal Caroli Barberini, no. 682.

Recorded in a post-1672 inventory of Prince Maffeo Barberini, no. 663.

F. Matz and F. von Duhn, Antike Bildwerke in Rom mit Ausschluss der grösseren Sammlungen, vol. I, Leipzig, 1881, no. 918.

M. Aronberg Lavin, Seventeenth Century Barberini Documents and Inventories, New York, 1975, pp. 181, 324, 390, and 575.

C. Pietrangeli, Palazzo Sciarra, Rome, 1986, p. 368, no. 38.

'The Spring 2007 Antiquities Sales', Minerva, vol. 18, no. 5, 2007, p. 40, fig. 3.

J. Pollini, 'Roman Marble Sculpture', in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, p. 83, fig. 17.

Egypte Ancienne, no. 8, May-July 2013, p. 67.

Ancient Warfare, vol. XII, issue 6, June/July 2019, p. 59.

Ancient History, no. 28, June/July 2020, p. 59.

France Today, vol. 29, no. 4, June/July 2014, p. 65.



Exhibited

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011 - 2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA390).
Medium:Marble, Stone
Art style:Ancient Art
Place of origin:Italy, Europe, Roman Empire
Auction house category:Ancient Art & Antiquities
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