THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A ROMAN BRONZE STATUETTE OF HERAKLES, standing looking to his right, with weight on right leg and left knee flexed, naked save for a lion pelt which is draped over his crooked left arm, his right hand held out, with thick wavy beard and hair in which is tied a fillet with two broad curling ribbons which fall down on to his shoulders, recent silver eye and nipple inlays, mounted, circa 1st Century B.C./A.D.

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A ROMAN BRONZE STATUETTE OF HERAKLES, standing looking to his right, with weight on right leg and left knee flexed, naked save for a lion pelt which is draped over his crooked left arm, his right hand held out, with thick wavy beard and hair in which is tied a fillet with two broad curling ribbons which fall down on to his shoulders, recent silver eye and nipple inlays, mounted, circa 1st Century B.C./A.D.
5 3/8in. (13.6cm.) high

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Sold Christie's London, 2 December 1970, lot 78, the property of Mrs James W. Johnson

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