This season’s antiquities sale will include a variety of examples of Egyptian, Classical and Western Asiatic material. We are pleased to offer from the Estate of Jan Mitchell a rare and complete Greek marble grave stele from the mid to late 4th century B.C. showing a young boy with his dog, found in Athens in 1877. Three vases to be offered from this estate were once in the collection of William Randolph Hearst at San Simeon. Our sale also includes a draped marble figure of a muse holding a lyre, carved around the 1st century A.D., and discovered in 1891. Among other fine examples of Roman marbles is an almost life-size figure of Aphrodite from the collection of the Regency collector and designer Thomas Hope. This sculpture was recorded in various illustrations of his collection, and its whereabouts were unknown since it was last sold at auction in 1917.