This was at Bonhams last week: a Roman Aphrodite, formerly in Graham Geddes hands. A lot like my "Indian" Gulbenkian Venus, I'm afraid, both in pose and folds of flesh. Minus the Egyptian glaze, of course.So I was mistaken then. How very not surprising: a connoisseur is truly only as good as the sum total of everything he has seen. But then -- there is that matter of the jewelry -- the necklace and armlets on the Gulbenkian Venus are unmistakably Indian.
Er... Or are they?
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