★ Outstanding Object ★

A MAGNIFICENT ROMAN BRONZE ARM FROM A MALE STATUETTE Circa 1st-2nd century AD. A strongly muscular, slightly bent right arm from a statuette, probably originally holding an attribute or implement in the hand. Broken from just below the shoulder. The remains of a small channel on top of the arm (at the break line) suggest that it was made separately in antiquity and then attached to the statuette; a procedure that can be observed on other statuettes of the highest quality level. Probably from a statuette of Hercules, or a mythological creature such as a satyr or a centaur, the complete statuette would have measured about 25 cm in height. An outstanding object! L 86 mm

Austrian private collection, acquired in the 1980s-90s.