Lot 1264
Large, Impressive Terra Cotta of Aphrodite/Venus. Graeco-Roman Southern Italy, perhaps Sicily, c. 1st cent. BC. - 1st cent AD. The slim, wide-hipped goddess stands on high plinth, wearing diaphanous garments, and raises with one hand the edge of her garment while the other hand is out to the side - - in a gesture that is both revealing and regal. A long necklace with cockleshell pendant hangs down to her waist. A stephane crowns her head. The plinth with scene of Eros/Cupid sleeping beneath a cloth partition. A huge moldmade terra cotta, with vent hole at back. Repaired, with area of restoration mostly to back and left shoulder of Venus. Height: 23", on custom base. Rare in this size and preservation.
Estimated Value $5,000 - 6,000.
Formerly in a west German private collection. Previously with Superior Galleries in the 1990's.
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