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LOT 2041
Bactrian Style Silver Dish Fragment with Hellenistic Portraits
20TH CENTURY A.D.
8 7/8 in. (152 grams, 22.5 cm).
Comprising a portion of the silver-coloured metal rim; rim with vine tendrils, leaves and bunches of grapes modelled in high-relief and extending into the bowl; base with a ring of right-facing male profile busts each within a pelletted hoop, and border of larger pellets below; underside abraded. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the London collection of the late Mr S.M., 1969-1999.
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LOT 2041
Bactrian Style Silver Dish Fragment with Hellenistic Portraits
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
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Post Medieval Marble Portrait of a Man
17th-18th century A.D.Estimate: £5,000 - 7,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,500
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Private collection, England. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13082-249677.
From the late 17th century until around the 1760s, classical nostalgia and the viewing and recording of classical remains became major occupations for aristocratic young men who went on the ‘Grand Tour’. In Rome, for example, some British visitors counted and measured the huge number of ancient columns and obelisks still visible in the city. The wealthiest brought back antiquities, including stones with Latin inscriptions, and redesigned their gardens to display them. More significantly, such travels also encouraged those who went to redefine their own origins and native identities within a wider European context. The taste for the reproductions of ancient monuments involved also the sculptures of Middle Age. -
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Private collection, UK. -
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