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拍品專文
Clare Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (née O'Brian) was the second wife of the 5th Duke of Sutherland and at one time was the chatelaine of Dunrobin Castle, which on the death of her husband in 1963, was inherited by his niece. The Dukes of Sutherland had variously owned Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, the contents of which were sold in 1907; the London townhouse Stafford House, some contents of which were sold in 1913; and Sutton Place near Guildford, Surrey, which the 5th Duke purchased in 1918, and sold to J.P. Getty in 1959. The first three properties are mentioned in Michaelis as having only a very small number of Antiquities.
In a Christie's inventory of the contents of Sutton Place, dated March 1952, this bust is listed in the Library as a 'white marble bust of a Bacchante, on turned socle - 21in. high'. C.C. Vermeule in 'Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain' in American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 59, no. 2 (April 1955), p. 147, noted that 'at Sutton Place, in the Library and on the top shelves over the book cases, there are six ancient busts'. He goes on to only discuss the Herakles with lionskin (sold with Adam Partridge in February 2020 for £320,000) which was originally in Stafford House (Michaelis, p. 485) as viewed by Waagen in 1854 and Michaelis in 1882. In July 1913 Knight, Frank and Rutley had sold part of the contents of Stafford House including another bust of a bearded male (lot 373, listed as Homer) and now in the Lever collection (G. Waywell, The Lever and Hope Sculptures, Berlin, 1986, p. 22, no. 7, pl. 15). This bust of a bearded male in the Lever collection is mounted on a similarly shaped bust and socle, with a comparable treatment of the break line across the neck.
Waagan mentions seeing 'antique busts and bas-reliefs' in Stafford House in Treasures of Art in Great Britain, Vol II, 1854. One can surmise that the present bust was one of these pieces cursorily mentioned in his description of the objects in the house, and that it too was moved to Sutton Place prior to 1952.