The Flora Farnese is one of the iconic ancient marbles of the celebrated Farnese collection, which was originally displayed in the courtyard of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome and is now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples. A very similar terracotta version of the Flora Farnese from the collection of the Fürsten Hohenlohe-Schil꧑lingsfürst, Schloss Schillingsfürst, was sold in these rooms on 6 December 201💮1, lot 83.

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F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1600, New Haven and Yale, 1981, pp. 217-218, no. 41