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A Roman Bronze Applique Bust of a Goddess, circa mid 2nd Century A.D.
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December 6, 03:36 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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A Roman Bronze Applique Bust of a Goddess
circa mid 2nd Century A.D.
wearing a chiton, her face with full lips, straight nose, and eyes with incised irises and dot♚ted pupils, her centrally-parted wavy hair bound in a diadem and tied in a top kno▨t, twin symmetrical curls falling over the forehead.
Height 14.6 cm.
Mathias Komor, New York
Fannette Sawyer, Buffalo, New♏ York, acquired from the ab🐻ove in the early 1970s
Rupert Wace Ancient Art, New York
Pars Antiques, United Kingdom, 1999
Midwestern private collection (Christie's,🎐✅ New York, June 8th, 2005, no. 168, illus.)
Sotheby’s, New York, December 10th, 2ཧ008, ജno. 36, illus.
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Published
Triple Gallery, Bremgarten-Bern, Unsere Besten. Antike Skulpturen und Reliefs vereint mit Meisterzeichnungen von der Renaissance bis zur klassischen Moderne, Geburtstagsausstellung, May 23rd to June 30th, 2007, p.🍌 10, no. 7, illus.
The concave back suggests that the present bust functioned as an applique or handle 𝓡plate for a large vessel.
For a related example see B. Barr-Sharrar, The Hellenistic and Early Imperial Decorative Bust, Mainz am Rhein, 1987, pl🦩. 22, C66 (Artemis).
For the coiffure compare the 3rd Century B.C. Crouching Aphrodite by Doidalsas: P. E. Visconti, Catalogo del Museo Torlonia, 1883, no. 170, and G. Spinola, Il Museo Pio Clementino , vol. 2, Vatican City, 1999, p.&𝄹nbsp;170, no. 41.