ROMAN BRONZE FIGURINE OF VENUS AT THE BATH

拍品描述

Ca. AD 1 - 300. A bronze figurine of a nude Venus, shown with the weight on the right leg and the head slightly inclined. The hair is gathered into an elaborate coiffure with loose strands falling onto the shoulders, with the arms raised towards the upper torso as if adjusting drapery or hair, the body with simplified anatomical modelling. For similar see: Christie's, Live Auction 17459, Antiquities, Lot 181. Size: 92mm x 25mm; Weight: 74g Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old Dutch collection formed in the 1990s.

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