Refining Taste: Works Selected by Danny Katz
Refining Taste: Works Selected by Danny Katz
ROMAN EMPIRE | RIGHT ARM
Lot Closed
May 27, 02:01 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
ROMAN EMPIRE
circa 1st Century A.D.
RIGHT ARM
bronze
from a nearly life-size figure, bent at the elbow, the clasped hand with extended thumb and two quadrangular sockets inside for insertion of a now missing attribute, the fingernails finely delineated, two holes in the outer part of the upper biceps
length: 46.5cm., 18¼in.
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Paul Munro-Walker (d. 2016), Bournemouth, Dorset, acquired on the London art market, 1978
Virgilio Costantino Vecchi, V. C. Vecchi & Sons, London, acquired from the above on 3 May 1983
Private collection, United Kingdom, until 2019
The arm was cast separately from the rest of the figure and broke off directly below the shoulder, into which it would have been socketed and soldered into place. The complete figure could have been a youth holding a lamp or tray (http://www.getty.edu/publications/artistryinbronze/large-scale-bronzes/8-mattusch/) or possibly Artemis shooting her bow (see Mattusch, op.cit., 1996, cat. no. 35).
For a clasped bronze right hand with two bridges inside for securing of an attribute see Gorny & Mosch, Munich, Auktion. Kunst der Antike 214, June 19th, 2013, no. 23, illus. Also see C. Mattusch, ed., The Fires of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections, exh. cat., Cambridge, Mass., 1996, p. 226, cat. 23, fig. I, a bronze right hand clasping a hollow quadrangular socket in the Tampa Museum of Art, inv. no. 86.142.
For a Greek bronze panoply with similar provenance in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. No. 2017.228a–d, see https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/748484.