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Lot 123*

A Roman bronze Venus Genetrix

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,562.50 inc. premium

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A Roman bronze Venus Genetrix
Circa late 1st-2nd Century A.D.
The goddess dressed in a belted pleated chiton, which has fallen from her right shoulder revealing her breast, a voluminous himation draped over her left forearm and around her body, the folds falling to the ground, her right arm upraised, her left hand outstretched and holding an apple, wearing a crescentic diadem atop her centrally-parted hair, drawn back from her face and arranged in a low chignon, the eyes incised for inlay, 15.8cm high

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Provenance:
Dr Lederer collection, Berlin.
Wilhelm Horn (1870-1959) collection, Berlin, acquired from the above in 1930; and thence by descent.
The Collection of the late Wilhelm Horn; Christie's, London, 11 December 1987, lot 176.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989 (Gods and Mortals, no. 102).
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 12 December 1995, lot 499.
Private collection, Canada, acquired at the above sale.

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