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A NEAPOLITIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF NARCISSUS
Lot 47THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A NEAPOLITIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF NARCISSUS

LATE 19TH CENTURY

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GBP 1,320

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A NEAPOLITIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF NARCISSUS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
After the Antique, mounted on a breccia marble plinth
25½in. (64.7cm.) high overall

Specialist note

The original sculpture currently forms part of the collection in the Museo Nazionale, Naples, having been transferred there shortly after its discovery in a humble Pompeian house in 1862. It is regarded as the last great sculpture of antiquity to be discovered.