Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
Lot 88*
A Roman bronze Venus
6 July 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £24,000 inc. premium
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Anna Marston
Associate Specialist
A Roman bronze Venus
Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
Solid cast, the goddess depicted nude and standing in contrapposto, with her weight on her right leg, the left bent at the knee, with sensuously modelled body, the eyes inlaid with silver, her wavy hair centrally-parted and bound in a chignon at the nape of the neck, with corkscrew curls falling onto her shoulders, wearing a crescentic diadem and a freely moving separately-made bracelet, her right hand reaching up to clasp a lock of hair, 19.8cm high
Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
Solid cast, the goddess depicted nude and standing in contrapposto, with her weight on her right leg, the left bent at the knee, with sensuously modelled body, the eyes inlaid with silver, her wavy hair centrally-parted and bound in a chignon at the nape of the neck, with corkscrew curls falling onto her shoulders, wearing a crescentic diadem and a freely moving separately-made bracelet, her right hand reaching up to clasp a lock of hair, 19.8cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Private collection, St Louis, MO.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 7 June 2005, lot 40.
Anonymous sale; Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris, 10 October 2017, lot 291.
Private collection, Hong Kong, acquired at the above sale.