Statue of a Goddess
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Parian marble
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486323
Summary
Marble, Statue of a Goddess, Graeco-Roman statue based on 4th century BC types of a youthful female figure in a lounging attitude with the right elbow supported on a high pillar covered with drapery. Wavy hair is drawn back from the face and twisted into a big knot at the back of the head. Parian marble without crystals.
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
17 (painted on front of base)