Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:
23-24 July 1917
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/90
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    255 APHRODITE: Greek statue, in Parian marble—5 ft. 10 in. high—iound at Baizw. This beautiful statue suggests a partially draped Venus de Medici, and besides being, as Michaélis says, ‘‘ good work” (‘‘ Ane. Merb. in Gt. Brit.” p. 282), is in remarkable preservation. It is, indeed, one of the most entire ancient statues of Aphrodite known. Not merely is there a fine torso, but the left hand and arm and both legs and feet are original, and show not the least fracture ‘[Prare XVIII] 1
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