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Lot 190*

A Roman bronze figure of Zeus

7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £4,000

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A Roman bronze figure of Zeus
Circa 2nd Century A.D.
Depicted with wavy hair dressed with a wreath and with full curling beard, the nude deity holding a thunderbolt in his right hand, a chlamys falling in folds from the left shoulder and arm, raised to hold a sceptre, now missing, 11cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Canadian private collection, acquired in 2001.
With Sasson Gallery, Jerusalem, before 2000.
Accompanied by a copy of the 2001 invoice from Sasson Gallery.

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