IMPERIAL ROMAN CAST BRONZE FIGURE OF VENUS ANADYOMENE

Venus stands on her original bronze spool shaped pedestal.

Reattached to pedestal, minor repair to the drapery.

Eastern Empire, 2nd–3rd Century AD

25 x 9.1 cm (9 7/8 x 3 5/8")

Ex: Near Eastern private collection, 1977. Thence by descent to a private London collection, 1985.

With United Kingdom import documents.

#5698

Exhibited: 

BRAFA Art Fair. (Brussels, 26 Jan- 2 Feb 2020) 

Published: 

Antiquarium, Ltd.; Ancient Treasures XVIII (London, 2019) p.34, back cover

Comparandum:

Brinkerhoff, Dericksen M. ; Hellenistic statues of Aphrodite. Studies in the history of their stylistic development (New York, 1978) pl.XXXVII (Louvre MA 3079)