Sydney Burney
| Sydney Burney CBE | |||||
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| Born | 1878 | ||||
| Died | 1951 | ||||
| Residence | 4 Bruton Street, Bond Street, W1 [1937] | ||||
| Occupation | dealer | ||||
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1936.06.23 nominated and elected forthwith
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Sydney Bernard Burney CBE (20 March 1878[1] – 3 January 1951)[2] was a British art and antiquities dealer and collector based in London.[3] He was responsible for organizing an exhibition of African art in 1933[4] in which African art was depicted as equal to the art of other cultures.[5] He donated a limestone Etruscan urn to the British Museum.[6]
Burney owned the crystal skull, later known as the Mitchell-Hedges skull, which was later sold by his son at auction at Sotheby's.[7] He sold an artifact known as the Burney Relief, later called "Queen of the Night," when it was acquired by the British Museum in 2003. The authenticity of this artifact has been questioned on stylistic grounds.[8]
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