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Lot 1244
Henri Josep Francois, Baron de Triqueti (1804-74), a Dieppe ivory and dark patinated bronze, Ariadne/Cleopatra, an asp around her arm, seated in an Egyptian Revival chair, with eagles to angles, paw feet, rouge marble platform, ebonised base, signed to her head band, H De Triqueti, 1859The original statue is situated in the Courtyard of Statues (Cortile delle Statue), Vatican and was acquired by Pope Julius II (1503-1513) in 1512. It was believed to be of Cleopatra, who killed herself with the bite of an asp, however Ennio Quirino Visconti recognised the statue as being of Ariadne, in the 1700's.Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos of Crete who, after having helped Theseus overcome the Minotaur and escape the Labyrinth, was abandoned by the ungrateful man as she lay sleeping on the island of Naxos; she was re-awakened by the arrival of Dionysus, who married her. The Vatican sculpture is a copy of a 2nd century B.C. original from the school of Pergamon
Lot 1474
A French Louis XV Revival bronze mounted mahogany and kingwood shaped oval writing desk, curved superstructure with divided compartments, inset tooled and gilt leather writing surface above three frieze drawers, serpentine legs applied with herms, acanthus scroll sabots, 88cm high, 81cm wide, c.1860
Lot 1682
A 19th century French parcel-gilt and dark patinated bronze mantel clock garniture, the timepiece dial inscribed H Luppens, Bruxelles [Brussels] and applied with Roman numerals, 14-day movement numbered 2284, cast as a pearl raised from the sea and revealed behind a drape by putti, alabaster base, 32.5cm high, the figural two-branch candelabra 21.5cm high
Lot 1690
A 19th century gilt-patinated figural bronze and black marble mantel clock, 9cm white enamel dial inscribed Raingo Frères à Paris, with Roman numerals and twin-winding holes, eight-day movement striking on a bell, the black marble columnar case surmounted by a bronze study of a young child praying on a cushion, the pedestal with two beaded bands, 37cm high, c.1870
Lot 1243
Claire Jeanne Roberte Colinet (Belgian, 1880-1950), after, a gilt patinated bronze, Andalusian Dancer, she stands nude but for flowers in her hair, holding castanets in each hand while surging on her toes, Art Deco brown onyx hexagonal pedestal, signed, 42cm high, accompanied by a b/w photograph of the bronze taken in the 1930s
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