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Lot 62*

A Roman bronze left leg of a life-size male statue

Antiquities
4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£15,000 - £20,000

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A Roman bronze left leg of a life-size male statue

Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
46.5cm high

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Provenance:
Private collection, England, prior to 2000.
Property from an English Private Collection; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 2001, lot 100.
Professor Reynolds Price (1933-2011) Collection, Duke University.
The Professor Reynolds Art Collection, Brunk Auctions, North Carolina, 10 March 2012.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York and London.
American private collection, acquired from the above, 5 January 2015.

Due to the bare foot and lack of sandal it seems most likely that the above leg came from a naked statue of either a god or athlete. For a statue leg of similar proportions, cf. M. Comstock and C. Vermeule, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1971, p. 154, fig. 176A.

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