two-continental-bronze-statuettes
Lot 3272
Two Continental Bronze Statuettes
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Late 19th - early 20th century, patinated bronze, both unsigned, the first a Grand Tour statuette of the Athena (or Minerva) Giustiniani, after the antique Roman marble statue of Pallas Athena, based on a Greek bronze sculpture of the late 5th–early 4th century BCE. (5 1/4 in.); the second of a nude Classical muse, mounted upon a hardstone plinth (8 1/4 in.).

Athena missing spear in right hand and some verdigris; Muse with some chipping to marble base.