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THE PROPERTY OF THE MORVEN COLLECTION
A ROMAN BRONZE FORTUNA
CIRCA LATE 1ST-EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN BRONZE FORTUNA
CIRCA LATE 1ST-EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.
The goddess wearing a short-sleeved chiton that has fallen off her right shoulder, and an ample himation pulled up over the back of her head as a veil and bunched in a thick roll across her waist and over her left arm, holding a fruit-filled and crescent-topped cornucopia in her left hand, her arm supported by a tall slender column, the right hand lowered, originally holding a ship's rudder, a crescentic diadem in her wavy center-parted hair, with long tresses spiralling onto each shoulder
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high
CIRCA LATE 1ST-EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.
The goddess wearing a short-sleeved chiton that has fallen off her right shoulder, and an ample himation pulled up over the back of her head as a veil and bunched in a thick roll across her waist and over her left arm, holding a fruit-filled and crescent-topped cornucopia in her left hand, her arm supported by a tall slender column, the right hand lowered, originally holding a ship's rudder, a crescentic diadem in her wavy center-parted hair, with long tresses spiralling onto each shoulder
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high
Provenance
German Private Collection.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989 (Gods and Mortals, no. 112).
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989 (Gods and Mortals, no. 112).
Literature
C.C. Vermeule and J.M. Eisenberg, Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, New York and Boston, 1992, no. 89-51.