Details
A ROMAN MARBLE FORTUNA
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Standing on an integral plinth with her weight on her left leg, wearing a high-belted tunic centered by a Herakles knot, the tunic clinging to her body, revealing its form beneath, with buttons along the sleeve, her mantle draped over her left shoulder, across her waist in a diagonal roll over the left arm, and wrapping around her legs, her sandaled feet emerging from below the hem, cradling a fruit-filled cornucopia in her bent left arm, her right hand lowered and likely originally resting on a ship's rudder, preserving two mortises on the neck for attachment of the separately-made and now-missing head, two additional mortises on the proper right side of the plinth, one preserving an iron pin
40 5/8 in. (103.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Private Collection, U.S., 1988.
with Fortuna Fine Arts, New York, 2000 (Beloved by Time, no. 125).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 8 June 2005, lot 166.
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