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LOT 0095
Eastern Greek Marble Figure of Aphrodite
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
12 3/4 in. (1.2 kg, 32.7 cm).
Carved in the round figure of the goddess standing nude with one hand raised and the other on her pudendum, her hair gathered into a chignon with lateral bunches on the crown and with voids to allow for the suspension of small gold earrings; putto at her left knee; left hand partly absent; remounted on a socle base.
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1992.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12860-241669.
Cf. Reinach, S., Repertoire de la statuarie grecque et romaine, Paris, 1930, pp.334ff., and especially no.7 of p.334.
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LOT 0095
Eastern Greek Marble Figure of Aphrodite
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000€5,800 - 8,120 (for guidance only)$6,750 - 9,450 (for guidance only)
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Opening Bid: £7,500
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