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Lot 109

A Roman bronze figure of a goddess

7 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£6,000 - £8,000

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A Roman bronze figure of a goddess
Circa 1st-3rd Century A.D.
Standing with her weight on her left leg, her right knee bent, her wavy hair twisted into a chingon surmounted by a crescentic diadem, wearing a heavily draped chiton with a knotted belt beneath the breasts and wrapped in a himation falling from her proper left shoulder and across her waist, her right arm outstretched holding a patera, 23.5cm high

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Provenance:
UK art market.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 4 June 1998, lot 145.
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale.

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