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Auctioneer

John Wilkinson

fl. 1848 · United Kingdom

British auctioneer, active in 1848. Worked at London. Worked with S. Leigh Sotheby.

Life and work

  1. 20 July 1848
    With S. Leigh Sotheby, sold in London the property of 'M. B*** D***', consigned from Paris, catalogued as Egyptian, Greek, Roman and other antiquities, together with Irish antiquities formed by the late Redmond Anthony. Lot 22 (p. 4) was the marble Venus head said to be from Kition, formerly in the Benjamin Delessert collection; an annotated copy in the British Library says it was bought by 'a person called Rutter', not further identified, and the head has not been relocated.

    LondonMerrillees 2016

Connections

2 people

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • marble Venus head ('une belle tête de Vénus en marbre de Paros') said to be found at Kition, acquired by Mas Latrie in 1845-46 through Niven Kerr, then in Benjamin Delessert's collection; Delessert sale, lot 22

    From Kition20 July 1848Merrillees 2016

Sources

  1. 1.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2016). “Studies on the provenances of the stele of Sargon II from Larnaca (Kition) and the two so-called Dhali (Idalion) silver bowls in the Louvre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 46, 349-386. Online