Roman Bronze Statuette of Mercury

1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

2 1/4 in. (34.6 grams, 59 mm).

Standing nude with winged petasos and draped mantle to the left arm and shoulder; marsupium in the right hand.

Provenance

From a private collection formed in the 1990s.
Ex London, UK, gallery.

Literature

Cf. Boucher, S. & Tassinari, S., Musée de la Civilisation Gallo-Romaine a Lyon: Bronzes Antiques I. Inscriptions, Statuaire, Vaisselle, Lyon, 1976, item 49, for type.

CONDITION

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