
Object Title
Aphrodite
Measurements
51.4 x 20 x 18.7 cm (20 1/4 x 7 7/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Creation Date
1st–2nd century A.D.
Credit Line
Ruth Elizabeth White Fund
Museum Name
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/155313
Provenance Information
Galerie Simon de Monbrison, Paris, by 1983; Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, Mich., acquired from the above in 1983; private collection, 1983-1995; Donald Morris Gallery, acquired from the above, 1995; Yale University Art Gallery, acquired from the above, 2010.
Exhibition Information
N/A
Publication Information
"Acquisitions," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2010.pdf (accessed 2012).
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Cumulative facts and circumstances
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Galerie Simone de Monbrison, Paris, was primarily active in the 1960s and early 1970s, a gallery that dealt mostly in African and Oceanic Art, not the usual Italy to Switzerland trade route. They did not specialize in Ancient Greek and Roman art.