{"id":790546,"date":"2026-10-03T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790546\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:50:09","slug":"incredibly-rare-italian-sculpture-found-at-salvage-yard-after-mystery-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790546\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Incredibly rare&#8217; Italian sculpture found at salvage yard after mystery disappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the reclamation yard had acquired the statue from a manor house in Andover, where it had been in the garden for &#8220;quite a long time, potentially decades&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It should be a lovely white marble, but it looks like concrete,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think whoever owned it had rated it as a lost masterpiece.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite its &#8220;weathered&#8221; appearance, an &#8220;eagle-eyed&#8221; collector spotted it and it is now going under the hammer at the Salisbury-based auctioneers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[The seller] wants to remain anonymous but it was a great find by him,&#8221; said Yuan-Richards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But how it ended up in England &#8211; if only these things could tell us their stories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The lot is estimated to fetch between \u00a35,000 and \u00a310,000 when it comes up for auction on the 8 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said the reclamation yard had acquired the statue from a manor house in Andover, where it had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}