23rd Jul, 2024 10:00
Fine Art & Antiques Including The Principal Contents Of Dunkirk Manor
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A Roman marble cinerary urn and lid
A Roman marble cinerary urn and lid, Flavian, circa AD 69-96, the front carved with eagles to the corners and with a ram's mask to each side supporting a swag of olive leaves, the central rectangular panel later carved with an inscription, the cover also of later date,
Provenance: Dunkirk Manor; Sir Francis Cook, 1st Baronet (1817-1901), Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey
Sir Francis Cook, 4th Baronet (1907-1978), by descent, sold shortly after WWII
Estate of Joan Griffiths, Christie's, London, 28th July 2009, Lot 288A
Sotheby's, New York, 11th June, 2010, Lot 44
Bonhams, London, 2nd October 2014, Lot 43
Sotheby's, London, 3rd July 2018, Lot 38
Literature: Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Novus Thesaurus Veterum Inscriptionum, Milan, 1739-1742, p. 1319, no. 8
Adolf Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, Cambridge, 1882, p. 642, no. 80
Christian Hülsen, ed., Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. VI: Inscriptiones Urbis Romae latinae, part 4: Additamenta, Berlin, 1902, no. 30482a
Eugenie Strong, "Antiques in the Collection of Sir Frederic Cook, Bart., at Doughty House, Richmond," Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 28, 1908, p. 40, no. 65, fig. 23 (https://archive.org/stream/journalofhelleni28sociuoft#page/41/mode/1up)
Friederike Sinn, Stadtrömische Marmorurnen, Mainz am Rhein, 1987, p. 149, no. 227
Footnote:
The inscription to L. Casperius Epaphroditus, which scholars consider to be a modern addition, was likely to have been copied from one in Naples (CIL VI.14480; Catalogo delle iscrizioni latine del Museo di Napoli, vol. 1, Naples, 2000, p. 114-115, no. 218).
Sold for £8,000
A Roman marble cinerary urn and lid, Flavian, circa AD 69-96, the front carved with eagles to the corners and with a ram's mask to each side supporting a swag of olive leaves, the central rectangular panel later carved with an inscription, the cover also of later date,
Provenance: Dunkirk Manor; Sir Francis Cook, 1st Baronet (1817-1901), Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey
Sir Francis Cook, 4th Baronet (1907-1978), by descent, sold shortly after WWII
Estate of Joan Griffiths, Christie's, London, 28th July 2009, Lot 288A
Sotheby's, New York, 11th June, 2010, Lot 44
Bonhams, London, 2nd October 2014, Lot 43
Sotheby's, London, 3rd July 2018, Lot 38
Literature: Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Novus Thesaurus Veterum Inscriptionum, Milan, 1739-1742, p. 1319, no. 8
Adolf Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, Cambridge, 1882, p. 642, no. 80
Christian Hülsen, ed., Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. VI: Inscriptiones Urbis Romae latinae, part 4: Additamenta, Berlin, 1902, no. 30482a
Eugenie Strong, "Antiques in the Collection of Sir Frederic Cook, Bart., at Doughty House, Richmond," Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 28, 1908, p. 40, no. 65, fig. 23 (https://archive.org/stream/journalofhelleni28sociuoft#page/41/mode/1up)
Friederike Sinn, Stadtrömische Marmorurnen, Mainz am Rhein, 1987, p. 149, no. 227
The inscription to L. Casperius Epaphroditus, which scholars consider to be a modern addition, was likely to have been copied from one in Naples (CIL VI.14480; Catalogo delle iscrizioni latine del Museo di Napoli, vol. 1, Naples, 2000, p. 114-115, no. 218).
Surface evenly weathered. Minor chips and abrasions. Inscription is modern. Lid perhaps ancient. One of the lid's corner acroteria is restored and repaired.
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