Lot no. 8
ROMANO-EGYPTIAN GILDED BRONZE CROWNED ISIS-FORTUNA
Ca. AD 200 - 400.
A cast and gilded bronze statuette of Isis-Fortuna standing in contrapposto on an integral stepped base. She wears a long, finely pleated chiton bound at the waist, and a high headdress. Her right hand is lowered, while the left supports a cornucopia over her shoulder, filled with fruit and grapes.
For similar see: Christie's, Live Auction 1915, Antiquities, Lot 177.
Size: 250mm x 50mm; Weight: 280g
Provenance: Private UK collection; previously acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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