Collector
Grenfell collection
fl. 1920–1929
Collector, active 1920–1929. Consigned to Sotheby's.
Life and work
- 1920–1929Collector whose antiquities were sold at Sotheby's in 1920 and 1929 and at the Anderson Galleries in 1922, including glazed sgraffito bowls found in Cyprus, Egyptian and Graeco-Roman glass, and scarabs.
Anderson Galleries, Inc, Oriental and European; ancient and medieval objects of art (1922), p. 80
- 1920Owned a collection from which two glazed vases found at Cyprus were offered for sale in this 1920 Sotheby's catalogue (lot 437).
- 1922Former owner of two Cypriot sgraffito pottery bowls of the 11th–12th century, one with a bird, sold with the collection of Alexander Scott of Philadelphia at the Anderson Galleries in 1922 (lot 510).
- 1929Former owner of a Greek terra-cotta Group of a Woman leaning against a pillar sold at Sotheby's in 1929, the 'Grenfell collection'.
Sotheby & Co. (London, England), Catalogue of Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities, etc (1929)
- 1929Owned aragonite vases sold at Sotheby's in this 1929 sale.
- UndatedOwned Egyptian and Greco-Roman glass, lamps and alabaster vessels later sold at this Sotheby's sale, including an alabastron and a diorite unguentary.
- UndatedOwned scarabs of similar type (Type XI), cited as among finds in the Grenfell collection
Mentioned in
1 mentionSources
- 1.Anderson Galleries, Inc, Oriental and European; ancient and medieval objects of art (1922).
- 2.Sales catalogue: Sotheby's (1920).
- 3.Sotheby & Co. (London, England), Catalogue of Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities, etc (1929).
- 4.Catalogue of Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities, etc., including fine Greek vases, valuable ancient glass, Egyptian and Roman bronzes, a rare Etruscan bronze (1929-03-14). Online
- 5.Catalogue of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and other antiquities comprising the collection of the late Dr. Wm. Moir Bryce … Lady Laking .. the Right Hon. Lord Braye .. (1920-07-21). Online
- 6.Andrée Feghali Gorton, Egyptian and Egyptianizing Scarabs: A Typology of Steatite, Faience and Paste Scarabs from Punic and other Mediterranean Sites (1996).
- 7.The Oriental and European collection of Mr. Alexander Scott of Philadelphia, PA. : ancient and medieval objects of art (1922).
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