A Bronze Appliqué Bust of a Goddess, Roman Imperial, circa mid 2nd Century A.D.

wearing a chiton, her face with full lips, straight nose, and eyes with incised irises and dotted upils, her centrally-parted wavy hair bound in a diadem, and tied in a top knot, twin symmetrical curls falling over the forehead.

Pars Antiques, United Kingdom, 1999
Midwestern private collection (Christie's, London, June 8th, 2005, no. 168, illus.)

Triple Gallery, Bremgarten-Bern, Unsere Besten. Antike Skulpturen und Reliefs vereint mit Meisterzeichnungen von der Renaissance bis zur klassischen Moderne, Geburtstagsaustellung, May 23rd to June 30th, 2007, p. 10, no. 7, illus.

very good, possible minor scattered patches of shoe polish or black pigment applied presumably to unify patina in places, remains of a broken tenon(?) at back of head behind top-knot
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The concave back suggests that the present bust functioned as an applique or handle plate for a large vessel.

For a related example see B. Barr-Sharrar, The Hellenistic and Early Imperial Decorative Bust, Mainz am Rhein, 1987, pl. 22, C66 (Artemis).

For the coiffure compare the 3rd Century B.C. Crouching Aphrodite by Doidalsas: P. E. Visconti, Catalogo del Museo Torlonia, 1883, no. 170, and G. Spinola, Il Museo Pio Clementino , vol. 2, Vatican City, 1999, p. 170, no. 41.

See other view on p. 118