A HELLENISTIC MARBLE FIGURE OF APHRODITE, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.

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Property from an American Private Collection

A HELLENISTIC MARBLE FIGURE OF APHRODITE, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.

leaning with the weight on her left leg, her right leg crossed in front of the left, her left arm lowered, her right elbow formerly resting on a pillar(?), and wearing a mantle wrapped loosely around her lower body and left forearm, her head turned to the left, the hair arranged in a top-knot; right arm and foot once restored or carved separately.

Height 63.5 cm.

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Mrs J. T., Belgium, 1956

Swiss art market, 1993

Christie's, New York, June 9th, 2011, no. 121, illus. (with provenance listed as above)

acquired at the above sale by the present owner

For representations of the leaning Aphrodite see M. Kocak, Aphrodite am Pfeiler, 2013. For the hairstyle cf. the head of an Aphrodite statue from Dion: D. Pandermalis, ed., Gods and mortals at Olympus. Ancient Dion, city of Zeus, 2016, p. 112f., no. 29. For the small loop of cloth protruding at the right hip cf. a Dionysos-statuette from Samos: R. Horn, Hellenistische Bildwerke auf Samos, 1972, p. 108f., no. 77, pl. 55f.