A 19TH CENTURY DIEPPE IVORY BUST OF CLYTIE, AFTER THE ANTIQUE
the maiden with drapery falling from her shoulders appearing from a sunflower head, raised on a Portor marble column on square base over a wooden plinth,
the ivory 12cm high, 24.5cm high overall
This lot is subject to CITES due to the ivory.
The original Roman bust of Clytie was made circa 40-50 AD and is said to have been found near Naples. It is now in the British Museum, London.
Clytie daughter of Oceanus and Tethys had an unrequited love for Helios, the sun god. Heartbroken she was turned into a sun-flower or heliotrope, which turns its head always to look longingly at Helios's chariot of the sun. This depiction shows the body of the nymph grown from the flower of the heliotrope at the base.
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