A LATE HELLENISTIC PENTELIC MARBLE TORSO OF APHRODITE

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.

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A LATE HELLENISTIC PENTELIC MARBLE TORSO OF APHRODITE
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
The goddess naked save for her drapery which falls in folds to reveal her buttocks, she coyly presses her legs together to prevent it falling further, with sandalled left foot, minor restoration, mounted
44 in. (1.12 m.) high

Lot Essay

Sold Sotheby's, London, 18 June 1962, lot 116, frontispiece; acquired in 1962 by the present owner's father.

Cf. Il Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, 1994, col. pl. on p. 305 for an Aphrodite Pudica with similar drapery.

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