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LOT 0610
Cypriot Limestone Seated Apollo Figure
CIRCA 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
7 3/4 in. (978 grams, 19.5 cm).
Carved figure of Apollo squatting with wreath to the hair, holding a goose in his lap against his chest, right leg folded and left leg bent beneath him; applied discs to the eyes. [No Reserve]
Provenance
with Bonham's, New Bond Street, 22 April, 1999, lot 80.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Footnotes
The swan or goose was the favoured bird of Apollo.
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