CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C./A.D.

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A GRAECO-ROMAN ALABASTER TORSO OF APHRODITE
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C./A.D.
The nude goddess bending forward, her right arm stretched down towards her raised left calf, mounted
5¾ in. (14.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Possibly from the Feuardent collection, Paris, 19th Century.
Formerly in a French private collection, acquired in the 1920s.

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Lot Essay

Based on a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd or early 2nd Century B.C., the goddess stooping lifts her left foot in order to adjust her sandal, a pose copied throughout the Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman worlds. Cf. M. B. Comstock and C. C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1976, p. 114, no. 175. Also, cf. E. J. Milleker (ed.), The Year One, Art of the Ancient World East and West, New York, 2000, p. 119, no. 91, for a Parthian alabaster female figure, 2nd Century B.C./A.D.

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