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LOT 0157
Roman Silver Statuette of a Genius
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
3 1/2 in. (149 grams total, 88 mm high including stand).
Advancing wearing an ankle-length toga drawn over the head as a cowl, the left hand supporting a partly-unfurled scroll; 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. Rolland, H., Bronzes Antiques De Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, item 460, for similar.
Footnotes
The statuette represents a priest dressed in a tunic and large cloak, the hem of which covers the head (capite velato). His right hand had to hold a portion of incense, while with his left hand he holds a container for the same incense.
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