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A Tactile Roman Bronze Venus FigurineOrigin: Roman Period: 100 200 AD Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1st 2ndCentury AD Length: 4. 25 inches 11 cms Width: 1. 5 inches (at maximum) Weight: 120 grams The weighty cast bronze figurine in the provincial style of the goddess Venus standing nude with right hand extended and brought to the midriff, and left raised to head height grasping the hair survives from 1st 2nd Century AD Rome. Considering the considerable age, the piece is in sound

Set with five various agate hardstones in greens

"Professor" Severn wrote a number of books and funded some almhouses in his home village of Codnor

The grandson of the founder

was one of the first chocolate bars ever produced

the figures standing on plinth bases with scroll ends

with deep green

shows a recently deceased partridge suspended on an inky blue ground from a pinned string

but the root of this success lay in agricultural implements originally made for local farmers

Length: 27 inches

which would look lovely in a country kitchen

ventriloquists and trained animals

though one has some small surface wear to the coloured surface