Queen Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt (69-30 BC)
Category
Ivory and bone
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ebony, ivory and oak.
Measurements
140 x 136 mm
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872515
Summary
Sculpture, ivory, Queen Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt (69-30 BC) also known as Ariadne. Carved ivory classical figure of a woman in classical drapes reclining on rock work. The whole is mounted on a black and white plinth formed of ebony and ivory moulding on an oak carcase. The Vatican Cleopatra from which this is copied is a late Hadrianic or early Antonine period of a masterpiece of the Pergamene school dating from the 2nd century BC and origination in the workshop of Dionysos.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1962 and given to NT by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley as part of the Endowment
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 24, fig. 96