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LOT 0123
Roman Bronze Mercury Statuette
2ND CENTURY A.D.
4 1/4 in. (123 grams total, 10.8 cm including stand).
Standing nude in contrapposto stance with winged petasos over his neat hair; left hand modelled open to accept a patera, right hand holding the marsupium coin-purse; free-running bronze arm-ring; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Identified as Roman by the British Museum on 8th January 1996.
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. Rolland, H., Bronzes Antiques de Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, items 34,37, for type.
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