Property from a Swiss Private Collection
A Roman Bronze Votive Foot, Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd/3rd Century A.D.
Auction Closed
December 5, 03:41 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
engraved on the instep with three lines of Greek inscription reading ΛΟΥΚΙΣ ΚΕ / ΒΑΡΑΘΗΣ / ΕΝΗΘΕΚΕ, "Lucius and Barathes set this up".
Length 22 cm.
J. Zado Noorian (d. 1942), New York
Brummer Gallery, New York, inv. no. N5133, acquired from the above by exchange on August 4th, 1941 (https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/61293/rec/1)
Galerie Koller and Spink & Son, Zurich, The Ernest Brummer Collection, October 16th-19th, 1979, no. 567, illus.
John Kluge, Charlottesville, Virginia
Published
Charles Clermont-Ganneau, Album d'antiquités orientales. Recueil de monuments inédits ou peu connus, Paris, 1897, pl. 49, no. 8
Cornelius Vermeule and Jerome M. Eisenberg, Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, New York and Boston, 1992, no. 88-68
Christie's, New York, The Morven Collection, June 8th, 2004, no. 546, illus.
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 2004, p. 650, no. 1784
