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LOT 0113

Roman Bronze Statuette of Isis Fortuna

2ND CENTURY A.D.

6 in. (287 grams total, 15.4 cm high including stand).

Modelled standing erect wearing a floor-length peplos-style robe and palla draped above, gathered and secured at the waist; diadem to the hair dressed in a chignon and with a trumpet-shaped modius above, the left arm supporting a cornucopia; mounted on a custom-made stand. [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., Recherches sur les Bronzes Figurés de Gaule Pré-Romaine et Romaine, Rome, 1976, items 257, 259, 263, for type.

CONDITION

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LOT 0113

Roman Bronze Statuette of Isis Fortuna

Sold for (Inc. bp): £715

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