Slave with fruit basket. Romano-Egyptian, 1st... Lot 61
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Slave with fruit basket. Romano-Egyptian, 1st century A.D. H 17.7 cm. Molded figure of a servant with grotesque facial features, pointed cap and short tunic. He carries a pouch in his right hand and shoulders an overflowing fruit basket on his left. There is a large recess between his legs, perhaps for the insertion of an oversized phallus. With certificate from Galerie Günter Puhze! Cf. for example Gods, Tombs & Grotesques - Clay Figures from Everyday Life in Roman Egypt. Exhibition Hamburg (1991) No. 104. glued break at knee height. Provenance: ex Gorny & Mosch auction 300, Munich 2023, lot 75; ex collection R. L., Lower Saxony. Acquired at Galerie Puhze, Freiburg, between 2002 and 2010.
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