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A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF HERMES

Lot 25
07.07.2022 17:00UTC +00:00
Classic
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£ 3 000 000
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ID 791838
Lot 25 | A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF HERMES
Estimate value
£ 3 000 000 – 5 000 000
A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF HERMES

CIRCA 120-140 A.D.





Provenance

Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798), Rome, found at the Pantanello at Hadrian's Villa in November 1769.

Sir William Petty Fitzmaurice (1737-1805), 2nd Earl of Shelburne and later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, Lansdowne House, acquired from the above as a 'Bust of Mercury' in 1771 for £55 and mentioned in a letter of 1st November 1771.

Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Ancient Marbles the Property of the Most Honourable The Marquess of Lansdowne, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 5th March 1930, lot 16.

By direct descent in the Lansdowne Family at Bowood.



Literature

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Catalogue of the Lansdowne Marbles, 1810, lot 62.

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A. H. Smith, 'The Sculptures in Lansdowne House', in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 6 No. 22, January 1905, p. 277, pl. II.

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K. Fittschen, Verzeichnis der Gipsabgüsse des Archäologischen Instituts der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: Bestand 1767-1989, Gottingen, 1990, p. 100, no. A402.

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Arachne. Datenbank und kulturelle Archive des Forschungsarchiv für Antike Plastik Köln und des Deutsches Archäologisches Instituts, no. 51167.
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