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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Roman statuette of Mercury, c.2nd century AD
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Roman statuette of Mercury, c.2nd century AD
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Roman statuette of Mercury, c.2nd century AD
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Roman statuette of Mercury, c.2nd century AD
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Roman statuette of Mercury, c.2nd century AD
Bronze
Height: 12.5cm
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The youthful, nude god stands contrapposto, his left knee bent, his toes lightly touching the ground behind him. In his right hand he holds a money pouch with gripped fist....
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The youthful, nude god stands contrapposto, his left knee bent, his toes lightly touching the ground behind him. In his right hand he holds a money pouch with gripped fist. His left arm is bent at the elbow to hold the folds of the chlamys which falls elegantly from his left shoulder, where it is fastened with a pin. A pair of wings with incised feathers on his ankles, and another pair adorning the petasos, which partly covers his tousled hair. The god has the muscular physique of a young man, with pronounced iliac crest and ribcage, his nipples inlaid with copper. Mercury’s tilted head is turned slightly to the right whilst his serene gaze looks straight ahead. The surface has a brown-black patina with mottled patches of green and red. A minute area of loss at the right heel. The tips of the fingers on the left hand, and the left wing on the petasos have broken away, the tip of the right wing on the petasos reattached.
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Provenance

Sir Francis Cook (1817-1901), Baronet, 1st Viscount of Monserrate, Doughty House, Surrey, UK
Wyndham Francis Cook (1860-1905), 9 Cadogan Square, London, UK; by descent from the above
Humphrey W. Cook, London; then sold through Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 14th July 1925, lot 103
Spink & Son, London, UK; acquired from the above sale
Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924-2017), Hampshire, UK

Literature

Compare H. Rolland, Bronzes Antiques de Haute Provence (Paris, 1965), no.41. Also see Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, Vol.VI (Paris, 1930), p.29, no.5

Publications

Cecil H. Smith and C. Amy Hutton, Catalogue of the Antiquities (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the Collection of the Late Wyndham Francis Cook, Esquire (London, 1908), pl.XXVII, no.21

Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, Vol.IV (Paris, 1910), p.94, no.1

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