CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

Name: A ROMAN MARBLE VENUS
Brand: CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Price: 120000.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 150,000

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USD 120,000 - USD 180,000

Closed: 16 Jun 2020

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A ROMAN MARBLE VENUS

CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

Price Realised USD 150,000

Closed: 16 Jun 2020

Price Realised USD 150,000

Closed: 16 Jun 2020

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29¹⁄₂ in. (74.9 cm.) high

with Spink & Son, London (based on archival photograph).
Sydney Lamon (1897-1973), New York.
The Estate of the Late Sydney J. Lamon; Antiquities, Christie’s, London, 5 December 1973, lot 296.

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with Spink & Son, London (based on archival photograph).
Sydney Lamon (1897-1973), New York.
The Estate of the Late Sydney J. Lamon; Antiquities, Christie’s, London, 5 December 1973, lot 296.

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Lot Essay

Sensuous depictions of the goddess Venus, either nude or in various states of undress, owe their ultimate origin to the Knidian Aphrodite by the Greek sculptor Praxiteles from the 4th century B.C. During the subsequent Hellenistic period and continuing into the Roman period, countless variations were created, some as cult statues, some as villa ornament, and others bearing the portraits of prominent imperial women who sought to be equated with the goddess. The pose of this Venus and the treatment of the mantle clenched between her left arm and torso and falling over her right leg finds a close parallel in the so-called Aphrodite from Agen (also known as the Venus de Mas), no. 707 in A. Delivorias, “Aphrodite,” in , vol. 2. Delivorias (op. cit.) considers this type to be a late Hellenistic creation influenced by the Venus Felix and popular Aphrodite Anadyomene types.