Description
| H.: 24,4 cm Condition: Excellent Provenance: Aronson, 2009, Dutch Delftware including selections from a distinguished Manhattan collector, p. 52, nr. 30. The prototype for this figure is the ‘Farnese Atlas’, a second-century Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic sculpture. The Farnese Atlas is the earliest extant statue of the Greek mythological Titan, and is also the earliest known model of a celestial sphere. As such, it is the oldest depiction of Western constellations, dating around 150 A.D., but may represent constellations mapped earlier in Greece, possibly by Hipparchus (circa 129 B.C.). Although the direct source of this Delft Atlas figure has not yet been discovered, it was likely modeled after a bronze copy of the Atlas Farnese. A more complete description of this figure has been posted in our blog, click here to see it. |
Lot 405
A blue and white Dutch Delft figure of Atlas, ca. 1710
Hammer price incl. commission
€ 15.600
This lot was sold on 1 October 2016 and is no longer available
