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A Roman bronze figure of Jupiter

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1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£30,000 - £40,000

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A Roman bronze figure of Jupiter
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
The solid cast nude deity standing with weight resting on his right leg, the left knee slightly bent, with left arm raised where a tall sceptre would have been held, the well-defined muscular torso with small pronounced nipples previously with overlaid metal, the face framed by accentuated profusely curling hair and beard, the hair tied back with a twisted copper fillet, the eyes inlaid with silver and the full lips overlaid with copper, set on a shallow spool-shaped base with punched inscription on the top and concave side, probably added later, 23cm high

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Provenance:
Mr K. collection, New York, 1990s.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 4 June 2008, lot 255 (unsold).
London art market.

This striking figure is an example of a type depicting Zeus the Thunderer; a thunderbolt, now missing, would have been held in the lowered right hand. The figure is a Roman version of the original statue, now lost, of Zeus Brontaios (the Thunderer) by the Greek sculptor Leochares, made in the mid-4th Century B.C. There is another example of the Zeus Brontaios type bronze figure in the J. Paul Getty Museum, object no. 96.AB.42.

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