A ROMAN BRONZE MINERVA
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A ROMAN BRONZE MINERVA

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

已結束2023年7月5日

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GBP 15,000–25,000

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A ROMAN BRONZE MINERVA
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm.) high

Said to be from the Bay of Naples.
Joly de Bammeville, Paris.
Catalogue d'une Collection de Monuments Antiques; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 April 1881, lot 7.
Joseph de Rémusat, Marseille, acquired by 1881.
Collection Joseph de Rémusat de Marseille; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17-18 May 1900, lot 130.
Comtesse Martine-Marie-Octavie Pol de Béhague (1870-1939), Paris; thence by descent to Marquis Jean-Louis Hubert de Ganay (1922-2013), France.
Antiquites et Objets d'Art: Collection de Martine, Comtesse de Behague, Provenant de la Succession du Marquis de Ganay; Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1987, lot 121.
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989 (Gods and Mortals, no. 104).
John Kluge (1914-2010), Charlottesville, acquired from the above.
The Morven Collection of Ancient Art; Christie's, New York, 8 June 2004, lot 483.

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This charming statuette of Minerva is rendered in the classicistic style with large eyes and a delicately pointed chin. She wears her aegis over a peplos-like garment and a helmet with side-flaps projecting outwards.