CIRCA MID/LATE 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF APHRODITE
CIRCA MID/LATE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
The naked goddess standing with weight on left leg, her right leg bent at the knee, and with a slight twist to her torso, holding a thick garland in her raised right hand, her left arm lowered by her side, her head turned slightly to the left, wearing a high diadem with openwork edge, her hair centrally parted and drawn into a chignon at the nape of her neck, a thick double layered fringe over her forehead, with ringlets falling onto each shoulder, standing on original corniced base with squared feet, one now missing, mounted
12¼ in. (31 cm.) high incl. base

Provenance

Formerly in a Japanese collection, acquired from Galerie Orient-Occident, Paris, 1988.

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Lot Essay

This type of Aphrodite holding a garland occurs chiefly in bronze from Syria or Egypt. Cf. B. Borg et al., Die antiken Skulpturen in Castle Howard, Wiesbaden, 2005, pp. 157-158, no. 103 for similar bronze Venus from either Syria or Egypt.

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