A WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF THE FARNESE FLORA

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A WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF THE FARNESE FLORA
ITALIAN OR ENGLISH, AFTER THE ANTIQUE, 18TH CENTURY

On an integrally carved rectangular plinth.
30¾in. (78.1cm.) high
Provenance
Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, Yorkshire. Sold in these Rooms, 15 July 1986, lot 82
Literature
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 217-9

Lot Essay

The Farnese Flora, at 3.42 metres one of the most monumental of all the antiquities of Rome, was much copied on a reduced scale both in marble and bronze, notably by Rysbrack at Stourhead (Haskell and Penny, fig. 43). The fact that the left hand in this version is shown holding a chaplet proves that it dates from before 1819, by which date Tagliolini had turned the hand outwards and replaced the chaplet with a nosegay (Haskell and Penny, fig. 113).

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