Greek Votive Relief
Greek, 5th century BC
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
499 BC - 400 BC
Materials
Limestone, Marble
Measurements
355 x 455 x 150 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486319
Summary
Sculpture, coarse limestone, Greek Votive Relief, Greek 5th century BC. Fragment of a Greek votive relief of the 5th century BC or scene of ancestor worship. In the centre facing right sits a female figure in front of an altar holding a cup from which she feeds a snake. Behind her stands a girl attendant holding a bowl in her left hand. Bought by the 3rd Earl for £126 at the 1801 sale of the Earl of Bessborough at Roehampton.
Provenance
?Collected by Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont, thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72), arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M. Treasury.
Marks and inscriptions
13 (painted on front, centre on frame)
Makers and roles
Greek, 5th century BC, sculptor