Post Medieval Bronze Medical Spoon

With balustered shank, double-loop handle and bar, bit with fleu-de-lys wards. 628 grams, 25 cm



Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an East Anglia private collector. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Comprising: a canvas copy of an important ancestral oil painting by Cornelius Jansen dated to 1637 depicting an aged female in facing pose standing within an arch with border of leaves; dark floor-length dress with ruff collar and lace cap; holding a wilted tulip in her left hand, a staff and rosary placed by her right hand; to her right, a sapling and nest with a robin, second robin standing at the base of the arch with legend 'AN.1637 / [.]LTA 73'; above right, gilt caption in capitals 'Elizabeth Lady Howard, wife to Lord William Howard, daughter and coheiress of William, Lord Dacre'; in old wooden frame with stepped reveal; old 'Philips Corby Castle' label to verso. 8.30 kg, 165 x 90.5 cm



Ex Corby Castle, Cumbria, UK, Philips sale, no.251. Property of an East Anglian gentleman collector. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Corby Castle is a Grade I listed building and ancestral home of a cadet branch of the prominent Howard family situated on the southern edge of the village of Great Corby in northern Cumbria, England.

Copy of a Greek sculpture (now lost) from the Hellenistic period (323-31 BC) thought to have been made in bronze; a young Galatian warrior, wounded in the chest by a sword blow and dying, half-lying with his face turned downwards; with typical features of the idealised Celtic warrior: the high cheekbones, the hairstyle with thick and long locks, and the moustache (mytax); resting on a discarded shield with short sword under his right hand, straps and two tubular war-horns. 4 kg, 32 cm



From the private collection of a S.W. London gentleman, acquired in the 1970s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

The Dying Gaul statue was rediscovered in Rome in the early 17th century, specifically in the 1620s, during excavations for the Villa Ludovisi. It was initially part of the Ludovisi collection and later acquired by Pope Clement XII for the Capitoline Museums. Except for a torque around the neck (a metal necklace typical of Celtic warriors), the figure is completely naked. It is possible to identify the figure tentatively as the ‘Trumpeter of Epigonos’ mentioned by Pliny (Natural History 34.88).