A Hellenistic Marble Grave Stele, circa 3rd century B.C.

UK: Greenford Park WarehouseNo Reserves

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December 17, 01:25 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an English Private Collection

A Hellenistic Marble Grave Stele

circa 3rd century B.C.

carved in high relief with a woman seated on a cushioned stool with turned legs, her feet resting on a footstool with animal legs, and wearing a high-girdled chiton and himation wrapped around the legs and drawn as a veil over the head, her right hand in her lap, her left hand raised with open palm and lifting her veil.

108 by 60 cm.

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reputedly Nani Collection, Palazzo Nani di San Trovaso, Venice, 18th Century
Gioacchino Ferroni (d. 1909), Rome (his estate sale: Jandolo & Tavazzi, Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome, April 14th-22nd, 1909, no. 80, illus.)
Edward Holroyd Pearce, Baron Pearce (1901-1990), thought to have been acquired by him at auction in London, perhaps at Christie's
by descent to the present owner

PUBLISHED

Jandolo et Tavazzi, Galerie Sangiorgi, Rome, Catalogue de la vente après décès de Mr Joachim Ferroni, 1909, p. 17, no. 80, pl. 51: https://archive.org/details/delaven00gale/page/n24/mode/1up and https://archive.org/details/delaven00gale/page/n130/mode/1up (the provenance is given as "Musée Nani" with reference to C. Biagi, Monumenta graeca ex museo Iacobi Nanii Veneti, 1785. However, the relief is neither to be found in this publication, nor in Collezione di tutte le antichità nel museo Naniano di Venezia, 1815

Ludwig Pollak, Der Cicerone, vol. 1, 1909, p. 276 (results of the Ferroni-sale: "Nr. 80. Griechisches Grabrelief einst Museum Nani (IV. Jhdt. v. Chr.): 2400 lire")

Irene Favaretto, "Raccolte di antichità a Venezia al tramonto della Serenissima: la collezione dei Nani di San Trovaso", Xenia, vol. 21, 1991, p. 92, note 105