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Dealer · Restorer / conservator

William Talbot Ready

fl. 1880–1895 · United Kingdom

British dealer and conservator, active 1880–1895. Sold to Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers; bought from Henry Rider Haggard.

Life and work

  1. 1883–1892
    Bought at the Lawrence-Cesnola sales (named as buyer in 1883 and 15 May 1884), among them lot 164 (bull's-head bronze tripod) and lot 284 (bronze mirror 'representing the Facade of the Temple of Paphos')

    LondonMasson 1996, p. 20-22

  2. 1887–1889
    Bought Samuel Brown's Kourion silver ring with Athena scaraboid from Rider Haggard for ten guineas and passed it to the British Museum for twenty guineas (1889); bracketed identification supplied by the editors

    LondonKiely & Merrillees 2012

Connections

4 people
Augustus Henry Lane Fox P…Henry Rider HaggardAugustus ReadySamuel BrownWilliam Talbot Ready
Sales & giftsFamilyColleagues

Sales, gifts & bequests

Family

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • bronze tripod ornamented with bull's heads (Lawrence-Cesnola sale lot 164)

    Berlin Museums Misc. 83971892Masson 1996, p. 21

  • bronze mirror with the facade of the Temple of Paphos (lot 284)

    From PaphosBerlin Museums 83941892Masson 1996, p. 22

  • silver ring with cornelian Athena scaraboid

    From Kourion-Ayios ErmoyenisBritish Museum1889Kiely & Merrillees 2012

Sources

  1. 1.Olivier Masson (1996). “La dispersion des antiquités chypriotes: les deux collections Cesnola”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 25, 3-32. Online
  2. 2.T. Kiely, R. S. Merrillees (2012). “The archaeological interests of Samuel Brown, government engineer, and his circle of acquaintances in late nineteenth-century Cyprus”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, 245-272. Online
  3. 3.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  4. 4.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.
  5. 5.Christie's. Sale 4260 lot 178.