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A ROMAN MARBLE FOUNTAIN FIGURE OF A NYMPH, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
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July 2, 04:42 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 GBP
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A ROMAN MARBLE FOUNTAIN FIGURE OF A NYMPH, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
standing with her legs crossed against a square pillar surmounted by an upturned jug drilled for use as a waterspout, her right hand resting behind her hip and holding fruits, her left hand formerly grasping the jug's handle, and wearing a mantle draped around her lower body and falling from her left lower arm, remains of hair on the shoulders; former restorations removed, the fragmentary ancient base set into a modern marble plinth.
Total height 112 cm.; height without plinth 106 cm.
Scheidwimmer, Munich
Julius Böhler, Munich, acquired from the above on June 9th, 1922
Brummer Gallery, New York, inv. no. N587a, acquired from the above on August 14th, 1922 (https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/5835/rec/12)
Francis Neilson (1867-1961), Chicago and New York, acquired from the above on May 18th, 1923
Brummer Gallery, New York, inv. no. 587a, bought back from the above on November 7th, 1923
Albert John Kobler (1886-1936), New York, acquired from the above on June 5th, 1935
New York private collection (Rago Arts and Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey, October 20th, 2018, no. 368, illus.)
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
For the statuary composition and the attribute of an upturned jug on a pillar cf. a statuette in Milan: E. Camporini, CSIR Italia, vol. XI.1, 1979, p. 27f., no. 11, pl. 10. This attribute is common for statues serving as fountain-figures; cf. certain replicas of the Leyden Pan (G. Lippold, Die Skulpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, vol. III.2, 1956, p. 400f., no. 42, pl. 168), the Narkissos (G. Hafner, Rivista di Archeologia, vol. 18, 1994, p. 50, fig. 4), or the Venus Pontia (G. Traversari, La statuaria ellenistica del Museo Archeologico di Venezia, 1986, pp. 133ff., no. 43).