Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Cameo with Antinous
Auction Closed
July 3, 02:32 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Italian, 16th century
Cameo with Antinous
agate
cameo: 3cm., 1¼in.
mount: 3.8cm., 1½in.
Possibly Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1500-1540);
by descent in the Gonzaga collection, Mantua;
certainly Daniel Nys Gem wundercabinet;
Thomas Arundel, 14th Earl of Arundel (1585-1646), acquired from Nijs on 5th or 15th November 1636, B 4 (E) ('Caput Antino') in the Arundel gem cabinet;
thence by family descent to George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough (1739-1817), Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire;
thence by family descent to John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822-1883), Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire;
David Bromilow, Bitteswell Hall, Lutterworth, until 1898;
by descent to Julia Harriet Mary Jary (née Bromilow);
Christie’s, London, 26 June 1899, lot 501a (sold to Whelan; 4gns);
John Postle Heseltine;
his sale Christie’s, London, 19 April 1921, Antique Gems, Greek Coins, and Greek and Roman Antiquities of J. P. Heseltine, Esq., lot 103 (sold to Lansbury; £4)
N. Story-Maskelyne, The Marlborough Gems: Being a Collection of Works in Cameo and Intaglio Formed by George, Third Duke of Marlborough, London, 1870, p. 88, no 501a;
J. Boardman, et al., The Marlborough Gems, Formerly at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, London, 2009, p. 62, no. 75
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