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LOT 1453
Larger Than Life-Size Hellenistic Style Female Marble Head
LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER
19 1/4 in. (32.3 kg total, 49 cm high including stand).
Modelled in the round with heavy brow extending to a slightly aquiline nose, deep-set lentoid eyes above high cheekbones, a small mouth with lips slightly parted; the hair combed radially and the outer band parted centrally and gathered at the nape of the neck in a chignon; mounted on a custom-made stand.
ProvenanceAcquired prior to 1952.
Hauser family collection, Zurich, Switzerland.
French collection Madam X, acquired from the above 1984.
UK private collection, 1997.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11984-206396.
Some details of the execution of the bust recall Hellenistic forms in Roman art, such as the marble head in the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession no.23.160.5.
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LOT 1453
Larger Than Life-Size Hellenistic Style Female Marble Head
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,680
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Roman Style Silver Mouse Figure Nibbling a Nut
20th century A.D. or earlierSold for (Inc. bp): £104
Modelled in the round. squatting with a nut in its forepaws, detailed fur texture, tail raised and coiled. 23.6 grams, 31 mm
Ex property of a Surrey collector; acquired in the early 1970s. Property of an East Sussex, UK, private collector. -
Bactrian Style Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
With graduated tabular beads, groups of annular beads and gold spacers with granulation to the outer edge. 57 grams, 50 cm long
Ex North London, UK, gentleman. -
Caroline Silver-Gilt Third Earl of Essex Military Reward Badge
1642 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,248
Cast and chased badge of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, by Thomas Simon (or Thomas Rawlins?), bifacial with obverse portrait bust of the Earl of Essex turned slightly to left, and to the reverse an oval garnished shield of Essex, surmounted by coronet; Platt II, type G. 5.39 grams, 30.20 mm
From a late 19th-early 20th century collection based on the old handwritten coin tickets. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. From an East Anglian private collection. Accompanied by two old faded handwritten coin tickets.
Essex became Commander-in-Chief of the Parliamentary forces in the Civil War before being displaced in 1645. Badges of several types and varieties bearing his image were presented to various ranks in the army. The grandson of Francis Walsingham, the Principal Secretary and 'spymaster' of Elizabeth I, as well as the son of Elizabeth's favourite, Robert Devereux figured prominently in the First English Civil War. At its outset, he became the first Captain-General or Chief Commander of the Parliamentarian army, known as the 'Roundheads.' However, unable and unwilling to defeat the Royalist forces during the Lostwithiel Campaign in 1644, Devereux became overshadowed by the ascending Oliver Cromwell and, less than six months after resigning from his commission, died without an heir in 1646.
