Statuette of Aphrodite

Greek

British Museum

300-200 BC

Aphrodite preparing for her bath. Full figure bending to remove the sandal from her left foot.

• Medium: marble
• Dimensions: 54 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £20000 ( Total: £65,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2000
• Vendor: Private collector

Provenance

Found at Knossos on Crete in 1858; purchased by Captain T A B Spratt; inherited by his son, Colonel F Spratt Bowring, who sold it at Sotheby's, London 1929; Sotheby's London, 1934; Sotheby's New York, 1998

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