サザビーズのインスタグラム(sothebys) - 12月3日 23時03分

This noble pug was buried in an ancient Roman sarcophagus ?
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Excavated in Rome in 1828 by the extravagant first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the sarcophagus was installed in the flower garden at @stowehouse. Upon the death of his favourite pet dog Harlequin, the Duke carefully removed and reburied the bones of the Roman youth within, and replaced them with the bones of the pug. Harlequin is charmingly described in an 1848 Stowe House sale catalogue as ‘a most sagacious and intelligent little animal; and his attachment to his master was very extraordinary. He was a native of Bologna, of a very rare family called the red-nosed pugs. He was small in stature, but of the utmost symmetry of form.’
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The sarcophagus goes up for auction in London tomorrow, seen here with specialist Giulia Cavagnis.
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Painting of the Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, and the future second Duke, by William Beechey ? Stowe House Preservation Trust
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