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Statuette Of Mercury
The Statuette of Mercury is a Roman Empire, Roman bronze statuette of the god Hermes created in the 2nd century CE. Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2023, it is among a set of similar set of figurines acquired throughout the museum's history to be of either Gaul, Gallic or Italian Peninsula, Italic origin that likely served as a figure of worship in family household shrines. Provenance The statuette was first documented in 1873 in the collection of Francis Cook, 1st Viscount of Monserrate. Thereupon in 1882, it was listed in the catalogue ''Ancient Marbles in Great Britain'' by Adolf Michaelis. In 1901, it was passed on to Wyndham Francis Cook (1860-1905), and thence by familial descent was sold at auction by Spink & Son on 14 July 1925. It was in the private collection of Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma until 24 March 2021, where upon it was acquired by dealer Charles Ede via Sotheby's to which the MET purchased the statuette from in 2023. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such as arsenic or silicon. These additions produce a range of alloys that may be harder than copper alone, or have other useful properties, such as ultimate tensile strength, strength, ductility, or machinability. The three-age system, archaeological period in which bronze was the hardest metal in widespread use is known as the Bronze Age. The beginning of the Bronze Age in western Eurasia and India is conventionally dated to the mid-4th millennium BCE (~3500 BCE), and to the early 2nd millennium BCE in China; elsewhere it gradually spread across regions. The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age starting from about 1300 BCE and reaching most of Eurasia by about 500 BCE, although bronze continued to be much more widely used than it is in mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
