Catalogued as ‘after the antique’, this marble figure of Aphrodite was the unexpected star of Chiswick Auctions’ June 14 sale of antiquities and tribal art in London.
Consigned from a private collection, the statue was pursued to £11,000, more than 12 times its guide.
The 10in (26cm) high piece, based on the famous Aphrodite of Knidos statue, had last sold at Sotheby’s back in 1991.