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LOT 689

Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,750

ROMAN - BRONZE FIGURINE - LARES
(465 grams, 145 mm tall (including base).).

Circa 2nd century AD. A solid cast standing statuette of a female Lares figure with delicately moulded features, hair and fabric, wearing a flaring robe; standing on the original columnar hollow-cast base; the figure holding a cornucopia in the left hand and a mirror (?) in her right.

PROVENANCE:
From an old private collection formed in the 1950's.

CONDITION