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LOT 0904
Roman Bronze Apollo Statuette
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
2 3/8 in. (37 grams, 60 mm).
Standing nude with arms raised, legs in advancing pose. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. Boucher, S. & Tassinari, S., Musée de la Civilisation Gallo-Romaine a Lyon: Bronzes Antiques I. Inscriptions, Statuaire, Vaisselle, Lyon, 1976, item 54, for similar figure of Neptune, item 60, for similar figure of Sucellus.
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