The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma
The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma
A Roman Bronze Figure of Hermes, circa 2nd Century A.D.
Auction Closed
March 24, 08:41 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Roman Bronze Figure of Hermes, circa 2nd Century A.D.
with wings emerging from his ankles and head, standing with the weight on his right leg and his left foot drawn back, holding a money bag in his outstretched right hand and formerly cradling a caduceus in his left arm, and wearing a petasos and chlamys fastened with a pin on his left shoulder, covering his left arm, and falling in long folds down to his knee
12.5cm. high
Wyndham Francis Cook (1860-1905);
Humphrey W. Cook, London, sold by him at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, July 14th, 1925, lot 103, acquired by Spink & Son.
PUBLISHED
Cecil H. Smith and C. Amy Hutton, Catalogue of the Antiquities (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the Collection of the Late Wyndham Francis Cook, Esquire., London, 1908, p. 70, no. 21, pl. XXVI
(text: https://archive.org/details/catalogueofantiq00smituoft/page/n258/mode/1up;
image: https://archive.org/details/catalogueofantiq00smituoft/page/106/mode/1up)
Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, vol. IV, Paris, 1910, p. 94, no. 1 (https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/idviewer/15462/114)