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LOT 0130

Roman Bronze Statuette of Triton Sounding a Horn

1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

2 1/2 in. (65 grams total, 64 mm including stand).

Bare-chested with fish-tail extending to the rear, raising a periwinkle-shell horn to his lips; left arm supporting a ship under sail; mounted on a custom-made display 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. Rolland, H., Bronzes Antiques de Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, item 324, for type.

Footnotes

The small statuette was possibly part of a scene representing Poseidon and Amphitrite. The riches of the sea and the dangers of navigation were merged by the ancients into a famous myth known as the wedding procession between Poseidon and the Nereid Amphitrite. Involved in the procession were nereids, tritons and hippocampi.

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LOT 0130

Roman Bronze Statuette of Triton Sounding a Horn

Sold for (Inc. bp): £442

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