AN ITALIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF JUPITER
17TH CENTURY
£2,142
Auction: 15 JANUARY 2025 FROM 10:00 GMT
Description
dark brown/black patina, mounted on a rectangular grey stone base inscribed 19
Dimensions
Figure 24cm high, 29.5cm high overall
Provenance
Collection of Prince Christian August von Waldeck (1744-1798);
Dr. Heinrich Scheufelen, Oberlenningen, Germany, 1962;
Alfred Spero Collection;
Acquired 1968.
Footnote
Note: Extract from the catalogue of Waldeck/Scheufelen collection by German Hafner, Mainz 1958 [translated from the German]:
“665 (19) Jupiter with right foot on an eagle holding in raised right (hand) lightning. In lower left (hand) holding a ”marshall's baton". Rough case (crude metal) after a sketched model. 17th Century. (Vgl. Nr. 636). H. 23".
See also “Die Antiken des Fuerstlich Waldeckischen Musems zu Arolsen”.