Live Auction 5444Town & Country Perspectives - The Charles Plante Collection
A BRONZE FIGURAL LAMP DEPICTING ANTINUOUS
Lot 78

A BRONZE FIGURAL LAMP DEPICTING ANTINUOUS

PERHAPS 19TH CENTURY

Closed4 June 2008

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GBP 2,125

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A BRONZE FIGURAL LAMP DEPICTING ANTINUOUS
Perhaps 19th Century
Modelled as a standing Egyptian figure supporting a tablet upon open hands, a later associated candle socket and glass storm shade surmounting the head on an ebonised rectangular plinth
24½ in. (62 cm.) high

Specialist note

This lamp 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.