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Lot Essay
An accompanying wood mount with an ink inscribed label reads, "Fragment of marble vase with dancing maenad. Bt from an Argive workman by C.W. 1893".
Sir Charles Walston (formerly Waldstein) was both Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1883-1889), and of the American School of Archaeology in Athens (1889-1896). In his early career he had been academically inspired by Professor Heinrich von Brunn of the University of Munich and by Sir Charles Newton at The British Museum, under whose initiative he delivered the first course of lectures on classical archaeology in the Elgin Room of The British Museum in 1878. He went on to teach classical archaeology as a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and directed numerous archaeological excavations. A copy of his publication, The Argive Heraeum, is being offered as part of lot 56 in this sale.
'Neo-Attic' is the name given to a distinct category of Hellenistic and Roman marble reliefs, figures and vessels with subjects inspired by archaic Greek sculpture.
This lot is accompanied by a certificate from The Art Loss Register.
Sir Charles Walston (formerly Waldstein) was both Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1883-1889), and of the American School of Archaeology in Athens (1889-1896). In his early career he had been academically inspired by Professor Heinrich von Brunn of the University of Munich and by Sir Charles Newton at The British Museum, under whose initiative he delivered the first course of lectures on classical archaeology in the Elgin Room of The British Museum in 1878. He went on to teach classical archaeology as a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and directed numerous archaeological excavations. A copy of his publication, The Argive Heraeum, is being offered as part of lot 56 in this sale.
'Neo-Attic' is the name given to a distinct category of Hellenistic and Roman marble reliefs, figures and vessels with subjects inspired by archaic Greek sculpture.
This lot is accompanied by a certificate from The Art Loss Register.