Anna Marston
Associate Specialist
Lot 33*
A Greek terracotta figure of Aphrodite
6 July 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,840 inc. premium
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Siobhan Quin
Senior Specialist
Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
A Greek terracotta figure of Aphrodite
Boeotian, circa early 4th Century B.C.
20.8cm high
Boeotian, circa early 4th Century B.C.
20.8cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of the San Francisco Museums of Fine Arts, acquired late 19th-early 20th Century (two old ink inventory numbers on the outside and inside of the base).
Property of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund; Christie's, New York, 10 June 2010, lot 111 (part).
Anonymous sale; Cahn Auktionen AG, 3 November 2012, lot 24.
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above.
For a similar Aphrodite figure from Boeotia in the British Museum cf. R Higgins, Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, , 1969, Vol. 1, no. 864.