Master Sculpture from Four Millennia

Master Sculpture from Four Millennia

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Circle of Giovanni Battista Della Porta (1542-1597)

Bust of a Child

Auction Closed

July 5, 11:37 AM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Circle of Giovanni Battista Della Porta (1542-1597)

Italian, probably Rome, late 16th/ early 17th century

Bust of a Child


white marble, with breccia pernice marble shoulders, on a nero portoro marble socle

bust: 33cm., 13in.

42.5cm., 16¾in. overall

Maurice Kann (1839-1906), Paris;

His post-humous sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 5-8 December 1910, lot 436;

Dr. James Simon (1880-1944), Berlin, until 1927;

His sale, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 25-26 October 1927, lot 230