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Dealer

V. Vagliano

fl. 1925

Dealer, active in 1925. Dealt at Marseilles. Sold to Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.

Life and work

  1. 1925
    His Marseilles shop held a collection of 21 limestone sculptures and 27 terracotta heads and figures, seen by the RMO director J. H. Holwerda on holiday in Provence; the Leiden museum acquired it in December 1925 with the help of the Vereniging Rembrandt.

    MarseillesCyprus. A Dynamic Island 2025, p. 22

Objects

  • 21 limestone sculptures and 27 terracotta heads and figures, incl. a crouching sphinx from a funerary stele and the upper half of a bejewelled woman or goddess holding a flower

    Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, LeidenDecember 1925Cyprus. A Dynamic Island 2025, p. 22

Sources

  1. 1. (2025). Cyprus. A Dynamic Island. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.