BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
A ROMAN MARBLE STATUE OF ZEUS ENTHRONED, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
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Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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A ROMAN MARBLE STATUE OF ZEUS ENTHRONED, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
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
Height 53 cm.
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Galerie Le Breton, Rue Paradis, Marseille.
private collection, southern France, acquired from the above in 1968
For related depictions of the seated Zeus or Jupiter, see LIMC, vol. 8, p. 427f, nos 39-51, pls 269ff.