Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:: 23-24 July 1917

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/90

Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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253 STATUE OF ZEUS, in Thasian marble—6 /t. 4 in. high— the present head a portrait of Antoninus Pius—Greek, 450-850 p.c. Michaélis calls the statue “this grand figure,” and affirms that it is undoubtedly a Zeus, the Antoninus head being a much later addition (“ Anc. Marb. in Gt. Brit.,” 282). Reference to Overbeck’s “ Kunstmythologie,”’ ii. 145, and Atlas, i. fig. 17, confirms this statement; indeed, the limbs and torso may even be the original of the smaller statues there illustrated, while the eagle beside the figure also shows that Zeus and none other was intended. The provenance of this superb statue does not appear to have been preserved ; its record in the Hope family extends for upwards of a century fe tong al aA g” > tay . # 4 “eae 254 ASKULEPIOS: antique statue in Italian marble—6 /t. 4 an. , high—found in Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli—Greek. A fine statue—‘ well executed,’ says Michaélis—representing the god in a standing posture, cloaked in the customary manner and supported by a long staff. Principal restorations: the right arm, both feet, the casket, and portions of the staff and serpent (vide Guattani’s ‘‘Monumenti Inediti,” 1. 90) [Puate XVII.} 1 C4

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