AN ITALIAN CARVED ALABASTER FIGURE OF THE CALLIPYGIAN VENUS, LATE 19TH CENTURY, modelled standing on a rectangular base

50cm high

Note: This model is based on a Roman sculpture that is found in the National Archeological Museum in Naples and dates from the 1st century BC. The origins of the sculpture lie in the Hellenistic period when a bronze model, now lost, of the Venus was founded in the period 300BC and it was refered to as Aphrodite Kallipygos.

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