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THE PROPERTY OF THE MORVEN COLLECTION
A ROMAN BRONZE VICTORIA
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
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A ROMAN BRONZE VICTORIA
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
The goddess perhaps once alighting on an orb with her left leg advanced, her toes pointed, her wings outstretched, her peplos fluttering behind from the forward motion, exposing her left breast and her advancing left leg, hefting an elongated cornucopia filled with fruit and topped with a pinecone, supported in her lowered right hand and steadied with her raised left hand
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) high
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
The goddess perhaps once alighting on an orb with her left leg advanced, her toes pointed, her wings outstretched, her peplos fluttering behind from the forward motion, exposing her left breast and her advancing left leg, hefting an elongated cornucopia filled with fruit and topped with a pinecone, supported in her lowered right hand and steadied with her raised left hand
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Ferruccio Bolla, Lugano.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1988, lot 169.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1988 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. V, part I, no. 22).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1988, lot 169.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1988 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. V, part I, no. 22).
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. 88-64.