A bardiglio marble Egyptian male figure of Antinous
Circa 1900
Standing frontally, the right leg advanced, the remains of a tree support behind, wearing the nemes headdress, the striped lappets extending down the chest, the muscular body clad at the waist with a short pleated shendyt kilt, the lower legs and arms missing, mounted, repaired 36½in (93cm) high
Standing frontally, the right leg advanced, the remains of a tree support behind, wearing the nemes headdress, the striped lappets extending down the chest, the muscular body clad at the waist with a short pleated shendyt kilt, the lower legs and arms missing, mounted, repaired 36½in (93cm) high
Sold for
£22,800
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Formerly in the Collection of Naim Attallah, the former CEO of Asprey.
Literature:
This particular type with the tree support at the leg is probably after a pair of bleu turquin marble statues of Antinous by Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet (1750-1818) made circa 1810. Cf. J-M Humbert (Ed.), Egyptomania, (Paris, 1994), p. 269. Those were, in their turn, after the ancient figures of Osiris-Antinous, the most well known of which are the marble statues of Antinous found at the Emperor Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, now in the Vatican Museums, Rome.
Category: Antiquities
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