THE CALLALY GREEK MARBLE HEAD OF A HORSE , the spirited animal with veined muzzle, the head recessed at the back, the eye sockets set with Belgian black marble eyes, wearing a bronze harness, mounted on a grey marble socled base

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THE CALLALY GREEK MARBLE HEAD OF A HORSE , the spirited animal with veined muzzle, the head recessed at the back, the eye sockets set with Belgian black marble eyes, wearing a bronze harness, mounted on a grey marble socled base
Roman, circa 1st Century B.C./A.D. with 19th Century restorations
20½in. (52cm.) high from base of socle to tip of ear ; 25¼in. (64.1cm.) long

Condition: left ear missing; 19th Century additions include restored tip of right ear, part of mane, muzzle, eyes and harness

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Provenance: reputedly found in 1841 at Ephesus on the site of the Temple of Diana
Campana collection
William Henry Forman, Esq., Pippbrook House, Dorking, Surrey; acquired by descent in 1890 to his nephew, Major A. H. Browne, Callaly Castle, Northumberland; and by descent to his great-grandson, the present owner

拍品专文

PUBLISHED:
A. Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, Cambridge, 1882, p. 618

W. Chaffers, F.S.A., Catalogue of the Works of Antiquity and Art collected by the late William Henry Forman, Esq., and removed in 1890 to Callaly Castle, Northumberland, by Major A. H. Browne, London, 1892 (printed for private circulation), p. 62, no. 831 where the author notes that the head was "Found in 1841 at Ephesus, on the site of the Temple of Diana", although the temple itself was not excavated until some years later

Brief History and Guide on Callaly Castle and Grounds, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1981, p. 27, pl. on p. 28. In 1890, Major A. H. Browne built two large museums (the 'Pavilion') to accomodate the Forman collection of antiquities which he had inherited from his uncle, Wiliam Forman. The collection was sold in 1899 and the greater part is now housed in the British Museum; however, the horse head was not sold and was kept on view in the Pavilion