Live Auction 5745The Country House Sale: Pomfret House and Tetworth Hall
AN ITALIAN ROSSO ANTICO FIGURE OF ANTINUOUS
Lot 4

AN ITALIAN ROSSO ANTICO FIGURE OF ANTINUOUS

MID-19TH CENTURY

Closed5 November 2008

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GBP 3,000

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AN ITALIAN ROSSO ANTICO FIGURE OF ANTINUOUS
MID-19TH CENTURY
Modelled as an Egyptian standing figure, on an oval white marble base and rectangular siena marble plinth
13¼ in. (33.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

This figure derives from the famous ancient sculpture of the Emperor Hadrian's favourite companion, Antinuous, which had been rediscovered at Hadrian's villa in 1740. Antinuous had drowned in the river Nile and was posthumously celebrated as a demi-god, by the Emperor, who was famously fascinated with Egypt.