A Roman bronze Venus Genetrix

A Roman bronze Venus Genetrix
Circa late 1st-2nd Century A.D.
The goddess dressed in a belted pleated chiton, which has fallen from her right shoulder revealing her breast, a voluminous himation draped over her left forearm and around her body, the folds falling to the ground, her right arm upraised, her left hand outstretched and holding an apple, wearing a crescentic diadem atop her centrally-parted hair, drawn back from her face and arranged in a low chignon, the eyes incised for inlay, 15.8cm high