Sydney Burney
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| occupation = art dealer
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Sydney Bernard Burney {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} (20 March 18781939 England and Wales Register – 3 January 1951)England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 was a British art and antiquities dealer and collector based in London.{{cite book |author= Sydney Burney Collection
|title= Sculptures Collected by Sydney Burney |oclc= 17308928}} He was responsible for organizing an exhibition of African art in 1933{{cite book |editor1-first= David |editor1-last= Getsy
|title= Sculpture And The Pursuit Of A Modern Ideal In Britain }} in which African art was depicted as equal to the art of other cultures.{{cite journal |last= Clarke |author-link= Dora Clarke |first=Dora |date= April 1935 |title= Negro Art: Sculpture from West Africa |journal=Journal of the Royal African Society |volume= 34 |issue= 135 |pages= 129–137|publisher= Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal African Society }} He donated a limestone Etruscan urn to the British Museum.{{cite journal |last= Pryce
|first= F. N. |year= 1933|title= An Etruscan Urn
|journal= The British Museum Quarterly |volume=7 |issue= 4|pages= 124–125|publisher= British Museum
|doi= 10.2307/4421485|jstor=4421485}}
Questionable Artefacts
Burney owned the crystal skull, later known as the Mitchell-Hedges skull, which was later sold by his son at auction at Sotheby's.{{cite journal |author=Digby, Adrian | date=July 1936 |title=Comments on the Morphological Comparison of Two Crystal Skulls |journal=Man |jstor= 2789342|volume=36 |pages=107–109|location=London |publisher=Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |doi= 10.2307/2789342|issn=0025-1496 |oclc=42646610}}
He sold an artefact 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 artefact has been questioned by some on stylistic grounds, though most reject this assertion.{{cite journal |last= Albenda
|first= Pauline |date=Apr–Jun 2005 |title= The "Queen of the Night" Plaque: A Revisit |journal= Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume= 125 |issue= 2 |pages= 171–190|publisher=American Oriental Society
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External links
- [https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=93642 British Museum database]
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