A ROMAN MARBLE STATUE OF JUPITER ENTHRONED CIRCA AD 2ND CENTURY |

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 HKD

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Description

h. 52.9 cm, 20 3/4 in.

seated on a high-backed throne with his left foot forward and holding a thunderbolt in his lap with his right hand, his left arm formerly raised, and wearing sandals and a chlamys falling from his left shoulder and draped over the lower body

Provenance

Galerie Le Breton, Rue Paradis, Marseille.
A private collection, southern France, acquired from the above in 1968.

Catalogue Note

For related depictions of the seated Zeus or Jupiter, see Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. 8, p. 427f, nos 39-51, pls 269ff.