Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ISIS-FORTUNA, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Auction Closed
July 2, 04:42 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ISIS-FORTUNA, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
advancing with the weight on her left leg and formerly holding a rudder in her right hand and a cornucopia cradled in her left arm, and wearing high-soled sandals, long chiton, fringed shawl knotted above her right breast, and himation falling from her left shoulder, her eyes with indented pupils, her centrally parted wavy hair tied in a chignon, falling in corkscrew curls over her shoulders, and surmounted by a crescentic diadem and high cylindrical modius.
Height 18.3 cm.
Sotheby’s, London, December 14th, 1995, no. 116, illus.
For an almost identical example see Sotheby’s, New York, December 17th, 1996, no. 77; for related examples cf. Ägyptisches Museum Berlin, 1967, no. 1002, and A. de Franciscis, Il Museo Nazionale di Napoli, 1963, fig. 86.