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Lot 75

1 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Roman bronze figure of Tyche-Fortuna
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
The goddess draped in a chiton with a himation, her right arm lowered to the now missing rudder, holding a cornucopia in her left arm, her eyes recessed for inlay, wearing a crescentic stephane and a modius, 4¼in (10.5cm) high, mounted

Footnotes

Provenance:
English private collection.
With Royal Athena Galleries, New York, Gods and Mortals. Art of the Ancient World, volume V, part III, February, 1989, no. 111.
J.F. Collection, Loveland, Ohio, acquired on 27 October, 1987.
Sotheby's London, 14 July 1986, lot 350.

Exhibited:
George Mason University of Art, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
Ball State University Art Museum, Indiana, USA, 1995-2005.
Miami Art Museum, Florida, USA, 1989-1995.

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