Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Property from a Danish Private Collection
AN ETRUSCAN ALABASTER URN AND LID, 2ND CENTURY B.C.
Auction Closed
July 2, 04:42 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Danish Private Collection
AN ETRUSCAN ALABASTER URN AND LID, 2ND CENTURY B.C.
the lid carved in the form of the deceased reclining, resting her left elbow on cushions, holding a phiale in her right hand, and wearing a long tunic, mantle, armbands and necklace, her hair bound in a fillet or wreath, the front of the urn carved in relief with a Fury holding a torch between two pairs of dueling warriors.
Urn 38 by 56 by 32; lid 33 by 58 by 29 cm.
Christian Ludwig Schlens, 4, Corneliusstrasse, Berlin, by 1938
German private collection, acquired in the 1960s (Lauritz, Hamburg, April 3rd, 2017, no. 4609736, on a wood base with brass plate engraved "Aschenurne. Etruskien / 2.-3. Jahrh. v. Chr.")
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Published
Karl Anton Neugebauer, ed., Antiken in deutschem Privatbesitz. Festschrift zum fünfundzwanzigjährigen Bestehen der Vereinigung (Vereinigung der Freunde Antiker Kunst), Berlin, 1938, p. 16f., no. 30, pl. 15
Recorded
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rome: http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/882493
For a related alabaster urn relief showing the fight between Eteokles and Polyneikes cf. A. Rumpf, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Katalog der Etruskischen Skulpturen, 1928, p. 32, no. E53, pl. 38.
L. Schlens also owned a Roman marble portrait head of Aristotle, which is featured in the same 1938 publication as the present urn. In 1936, he offered to loan a painted portrait of Schopenhauer to an exhibition entitled "Great German Men in Portraits of their Time" at the national Gallery in Berlin, held to coincide with the Berlin Olympics.