Lot Essay
For the type compare the small bronze figure in Boston, adorned with all of the same attributes but for Hygeia's snake, fig. 6 in Matheson, et al., An Obsession with Fortune, Tyche in Greek and Roman Art.
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CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN BRONZE POLYTHEISTIC FORTUNA
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Depicted with the wings of Victoria, wearing a high-girt chiton, the belt once inlaid, and a himation over her left shoulder and right leg, resting her right foot on a ship's rudder, its handle in her right hand, the snake of Hygeia coiled around her right arm, once holding a cornucopia in her separately-made left arm, a crenellated crown in her center-parted hair, elements of the crown once inlaid, the crown surmounted by a modius fronted with the crown of Isis, composed of a solar disk, Hathor horns, and upright and lateral plumes, the solar disk fronted by the crescent moon of Luna, with Artemis's quiver over her right shoulder, her eyes once inlaid
7½ in. (19 cm.) high
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Depicted with the wings of Victoria, wearing a high-girt chiton, the belt once inlaid, and a himation over her left shoulder and right leg, resting her right foot on a ship's rudder, its handle in her right hand, the snake of Hygeia coiled around her right arm, once holding a cornucopia in her separately-made left arm, a crenellated crown in her center-parted hair, elements of the crown once inlaid, the crown surmounted by a modius fronted with the crown of Isis, composed of a solar disk, Hathor horns, and upright and lateral plumes, the solar disk fronted by the crescent moon of Luna, with Artemis's quiver over her right shoulder, her eyes once inlaid
7½ in. (19 cm.) high
Provenance
with Galerie Simone de Monbrison, Paris, 1987.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1988, lot 155.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1988.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1988, lot 155.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1988.
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. 88-66.