{"id":873187,"date":"2026-10-06T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/873187\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:58:09","slug":"centuries-old-sculpture-from-legendary-italian-artist-discovered-at-salvage-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/873187\/","title":{"rendered":"Centuries-old sculpture from legendary Italian artist discovered at salvage yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/swns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:5.17171717;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/swns_copyright_large.png\" class=\"attachment-nypost-syndicated-partner size-nypost-syndicated-partner\" alt=\"SWNS\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lost artifact from the Italian sculptor responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/18\/lifestyle\/tourist-blacklisted-fined-for-diving-into-trevi-fountain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rome\u2019s Trevi Fountain <\/a>was found in a reclamation yard \u2014 and could be worth up to $13,270.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-inch tall maquette of Pope Clement XII by Pietro Bracci was spotted by a collector at a salvage yard in Wiltshire, England.<\/p>\n<p>Pietro Bracci was commissioned by the Roman Senate to execute a bronze portrait of Pope Clement XII commemorating the pope\u2019s donation to the Capitoline Museums.<\/p>\n<p>A 27-inch statue of Pope Clement XII was discovered at a salvage yard in Wiltshire, England. Woolley &amp; Wallis \/ SWNS<\/p>\n<p>The statue was made by Italian artist Pietro Bracci in the 1730s. Woolley &amp; Wallis \/ SWNS<\/p>\n<p>The statue is expected to be sold for up to about $13,000 at an auction this month. Woolley &amp; Wallis \/ SWNS<\/p>\n<p>The lot is estimated to fetch between $6,635 and $13,270 when it comes up for auction on Oct. 8, despite only being initially bought for $400.<\/p>\n<p>Woolley and Wallis\u2019 furniture specialist Mark Yuan Richards said the artifact \u2014 believed to have been completed in the 1730s \u2014 \u201cis an exceptionally exciting discovery.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cTo have a rare eighteenth-century marble figure of Pope Clement XII by Pietro Bracci come to light, and now be offered for sale, is a remarkable opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBracci was one of the great sculptors of eighteenth-century Rome, and this extraordinary survivor offers a tangible connection to the world of the papal court and the artistic splendour of the period.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lost artifact from the Italian sculptor responsible for Rome\u2019s Trevi Fountain was found in a reclamation yard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1029,228,226,227,195,229,9333,88,6801,2016,1049,965],"class_list":["post-873187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-auctions","tag-design","tag-england","tag-entertainment","tag-italy","tag-sculptures","tag-united-kingdom","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}